I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at World Wide Technology (Denver, CO) in Feb 2016
Interview
I submitted my resume through a friend. The next day I got a call from their HR department. We talked briefly about my experience. I then received two word documents with pre-screening questions covering why I was interested in the company, my experience and my interests. After that, a 30min phone interview was scheduled. This was a pretty laid back discussion about the environment at Asynchrony Labs and what I was interested in doing. I think the sole purpose of that interview was to find out how I felt about paired programming all day every day. If you aren’t interested in pairing all day everyday, then this place is not for you!
Next, I received a request for a face to face interview. The face to face is the main event. Mine was 2.5 hours long. The first part was a discussion about me, my experience, etc; as well as sometime for me to ask them questions. There were two people in the room. One had a laptop and I'm pretty sure she was googling technical interview questions to ask me. She was staring at it a lot. It was unclear to me if she was actually listening to what I had to say or if she was just trying to figure out the next question she was going to ask me.
Lastly, I was given a paired-programming exercise. I was a bit confused by this because in true paired programming both pairs write code, but for obvious reasons, they aren't going to solve any of the problems for you. It should really be just called a coding test. The exercise is test driven, but you don't have to write any tests. You are given a set of classes and a set of tests, and you have to implement code to get the tests to pass. You are only given one test at a time and your task is to read the code of the test to figure out what code you need to implement in the classes to get the code to pass. There is an open dialogue going the whole time and you can ask questions and most definitely you should talk through what your approach is and how to solve the problem before you code the solution. We ran into some weird technical difficulties during the exercise that derailed and flustered me but the pair was very apologetic and very helpful throughout the whole experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your experience with test first development and paired programming?
There were 3 rounds, technical, techno manager and manger round. All were easy and interviewer was kind. HR was also approachable. Somehow did not get an Offer. it was work from home oportunity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
behavior related questions. .net basic, oops, solid etc.
Coding test on Given Problem, followed by Technical round and Final discussion
Technical round asked question according to Coding test
Coding test can be any language according to you comfort
Complete virtual process
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at World Wide Technology (Denver, CO) in Aug 2016
Interview
Pretty standard multiple step process. Recruiter reached out to me, and setup a preliminary phone interview. Once I was past that point, they set up a phone interview with the hiring manager. Had to take a coding test in advance of that meeting. They tool they used for the test was outstanding and easy to use. So many of those assessments tests have very poor interfaces, and can be hard to read. The tool they used on the other hand was very well done. Passed the test and interviewed with the hiring manager. Very good get to know you interview. That was followed up with a face to face interview with the team. That was a very long 4 hour process that was setup in two stages. The first was a series of coding questions including writing a pseudo code solution to show your knowledge of algorithms. That second half was a code pairing exercise with a member of the team.
I wanted to add, that even though I did not receive an offer, I really appreciated that this company kept me well informed through out the entire process. I think this would have been a great company to have worked for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you explain the 5 basic principals for object oriented programming?
