I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Rubicon Project (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2016
Interview
It was the best so far I have attended. It was smooth and relax. I had one phone interview and 6 onsite. The interviewers and recruiters are true professionals and good at what they do. Great experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
if you go to an elevator at work and you see all workers facing backwards, what do you do? :)
Find second largest element. O(n) solution
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Rubicon Project (Los Angeles, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
Initial contact with recruiter via email followed by technical phone interview with hiring manager - mostly questions on Java and testing. A couple weeks later, day-long onsite interview at their LA office. They flew me in on a low-cost airline the morning of the interview. Went straight from airport to the interview and back to the airport after. Onsite interview had 6 hour-long sessions, including one behavioral with the hiring manager and his boss. I found the behavioral round a bit odd, with questions like "Where do you see yourself 5 years from now" and "If you enter an elevator with everyone facing the back, what will you do". I think they expected mostly textbook answers.
Office is an open workspace (people sitting next to each other on long unseparated desks). They have catered lunch everyday.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Given integer array like {-1,2,1,4,1,-3} find all 3 element sub-arrays that add up to zero, like {2,1,-3} {-1,4,-3} and test your code
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Rubicon Project (Los Angeles, CA) in Aug 2016
Interview
Typical SDET interview process. 1st round recruiter back-ground chat, 2nd round hire manager/director cultural phone interview, 3rd round tech phone interview, last onsite interview.
I was flew to their LA headquarters and flew back on the same day. The onsite interview was very smooth. I was first welcomed by the recruiter and had a tour in the office. Then I had five 45-minutes interviews, first tech, second culture fit/real life scenario questions, the rest were all tech interviews.
Though out the whole interview process, it took around three weeks to finish the last round. Great recruiter and response time. One thing can be improved was that my flight to LA was scheduled the day previous the onsite. Kind rushed. I would prefer to fly to LA one day prior to the interview, have a good rest, then interview the next day, instead of waking up at 4am, taking 1 hour train to the airport and then have the interview on the same day.
Overall, positive experience, everyone was nice and the office looks cool and full of smart people.
P.S Still waiting for their response and too bad glassdoor doesn't have this option "waiting".
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The tech questions were easy if you had some practices (leetcode, etc). The behavior questions did catch me. Be prepared for some real QA scenario questions!