what was the process like? for new grad

[rich jay]

I had one phone interview and then an on-site with 3 interviews

Mostly system-related questions, very open ended not like leetcode tricks

Definitely my favorite interview process, it was mostly focused on like making clean code and less on like meeting some runtime

I’m from CMU, interned at FB and google in the past

[zenith surge]

OP

[oblique phoenix]

can you elaborate on what you mean by "system related"

[boreal jungle]

did you get the decision on the day of?

[rich jay]

Yea I got it right after all my interviews, I hadn’t left the call yet

[rich jay]

Like the questions were basically like “here is some class / system we want, figure out design and implement it” rather than “create algo to solve problem”. The way to approach the problems was pretty open ended I feel, many different ways to do it

None of my questions were at all leetcode related

[oblique phoenix]

interesting... you mention class does that mean you can use OOP in the interview? I hear they OCaml / functional paradigm so just curious

[rich jay]

Yea all my interview sort of ended up using a class to structure it, but like I said it was really free form, u could just make a bunch of functions instead but I liked to make use of storing variables in self

U don’t have to be functional at all

[boreal jungle]

would u say its on the same level of difficulty as the phone?

[rich jay]

They were a bit more involved but roughly same difficulty I’d say

[oblique phoenix]

i can't believe they tell you right then and there, i'm surprised it doesn't go through a hiring committee for robustness

[rich jay]

So after my third interview they put me in a q&a session for like 30 mins

I think they were discussing it then

Also had lunch break after 2nd interview so maybe they met then idk