I applied through university. I interviewed at Kohl's (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2018
Interview
Online technical round.
3 coding ques.
3-4 behavior questions.
que1. You are climbing a stair case. It takes n steps to reach to the top. Each time you can either climb 1 or 2 steps. In how many distinct ways can you climb to the top?
que2:
Your friend John uses a lot of emoticons when you talk to him on Messenger. In addition to being a person who likes to express himself through emoticons, he hates unbalanced parenthesis so much that it makes him go :(.
Sometimes he puts emoticons within parentheses, and you find it hard to tell if a parenthesis really is a parenthesis or part of an emoticon. A message has balanced parentheses if it consists of one of the following:
- An empty string ""
- One or more of the following characters: 'a' to 'z', ' ' (a space) or ':' (a colon)
- An open parenthesis '(', followed by a message with balanced parentheses, followed by a close parenthesis ')'.
- A message with balanced parentheses followed by another message with balanced parentheses.
- A smiley face ":)" or a frowny face ":("
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1 question from Facebook Hackthon. 2 easy question one on recursion and other on array
I applied online. I interviewed at Kohl's in Jan 2026
Interview
Applied online and was reached out to by a recruiter in the company for a short chat. That went well, so we waited until after the holidays to schedule the next step; a technical interview with 3 senior engineers. Each asked their own questions, and then the engineer within my discipline took me through a technical exercise of reviewing code. I thought I did well enough for my level, and had a pleasant time talking with the interviewers. However, I did not receive any feedback. I reached out via email a week later to both the coordinator and recruiter: no response. Got the automated rejection two weeks later. Please at least be courteous and give an update on the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Have you had experience with test-driven development?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Kohl's
Interview
First was a recruiter call, then a technical screen on how to implement a set not using java collections, then an interview on spring boot details. Was a fairly simple interview process.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Kohl's
Interview
Phone screen, then interview with hiring manager where they talked about their team structure and asked questions about my experience. I recommend studying the book Clean Code. The interview was like a book report
