Evernote·Software Engineer

Evernote Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Apr 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started the usual way: I applied online, then the recruiter set up a phone screen.

I talked through past projects and internships, and the recruiter was genuinely upbeat and pleasant. After that conversation, I was given a coding interview prompt about processing a list of strings and returning the top N results. It wasn’t something I could just breeze through, but it was clear what they wanted.

Next I had another phone-based technical interview with an upper-level employee, and that’s where things turned sour. The interviewer seemed non-responsive for much of the time, didn’t help me work through the solution, and the overall tone came across as demeaning. When I tried to

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