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      Software Engineer Interview

      9 Jan 2013
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Toronto, ON
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Upsight (Toronto, ON) in Dec 2012

      Interview

      Looong interview process, it seemed. First was a phone call from recruiter. She was super nice and was great at explaining the interview process, the role, answering my questions, etc. This first part was more informational than actually asking me questions. Next was an at-home assignment. Was told it would only take two hours, but it took me a few days to figure it out (they gave me an extension, which was super nice of them). Next was a technical phone call with shared notepad. Next was an on-site interview in Toronto. Again, everyone was super nice, which is great because it was a looong day, 9-5 with a 1h lunch break in the middle. The day composed of an IQ test and face-to-face and video chats with various employees at the Toronto and San Francisco locations. The questions were combination personality/behavioural and technical (on the white board). The last part of the day was to take my existing code and make changes to it based on new requirements they give. The recruiter was awesome about keeping me in the loop and answering my questions throughout the process, and the office admin in Toronto was available whenever I needed her between interviews.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I was pretty well prepared due to Glassdoor reviews, but here are some questions: Take home assignment: (1) Read data in .csv files and output files based on the requirements. The requirements varied. Some were simple (return the same value), then they got steadily harder (return two numbers operated on in postfix form, return the value in the cell reference). Technical phone: (2) Write code to determine if a string is a palindrome. (3) Return item in array that occurs the most often On-site: REST API questions, behavioural questions, why do you want to work here, etc.
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