I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Tinder (Los Angeles, CA) in Aug 2016
Interview
I applied online, and the recruitment coordinator contacted me 2 days later. We had a casual first phone interview, after which, she immediately scheduled a technical interview with me in 3-4 days. Up to this point, it all went very well. The technical interview was the turning point... It lasted about 50 minutes. Not only the interviewer was in an open space with a lot of background noises, but he also had an accent. Almost half of the time was spent on me asking "what?", "say that again?", "sorry, I can't hear you..." and him repeating. All in all, it felt like they didn't plan the interview ahead of time. Very unprofessional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Knowing that you start off with a sorted array of numbers which you don't know what the content is, that array is rotated an unknown number of times, and you end up with another array. Find out how many times you have to rotate it back to put it back like how it was.
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Tinder in Sept 2025
Interview
-Needed to sign an NDA prior to the recruiter first round interview
-Recruiter first round interview was an Zoom call (audio only) for 30 minutes
-Discussed the role and company briefly, but mostly wanted to know about previous work experience and if there was alignment.
Phone Screen:
With HM
1. Prev project experience: Most challenging project.
2. Coding: Given a matrix of size Mx n, with 0s and 1s write a program to return number of islands , emphasis on clean code design.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone Screen:
With HM
1. Prev project experience: Most challenging project.
2. Coding: Given a matrix of size Mx n, with 0s and 1s write a program to return number of islands , emphasis on clean code design.
I applied online. I interviewed at Tinder (Los Angeles, CA) in Sept 2023
Interview
The process is as follows: Start with an HR phone call, then a coding session (1 hour) with one or more engineers, continue with a long virtual onsite with several sessions (3.5-4 hours), lastly hiring manager (30 mins).
