GoTo·Software Engineer

GoTo Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Mountain View, CAPosted Feb 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I connected with the recruiter through LinkedIn and had a phone call where the process and requirements were explained clearly.

The next step was a telephonic interview with a staff engineer the same day, and the early part was light—mostly a quick discussion of my experience.

Then came a coding task based on an algorithm question they pulled in real time (they said they searched for it and pasted a palindrome problem). I wrote code that ran through the test cases successfully, and after that I answered follow-up questions about space and running complexity—even though it felt like he hadn’t expected me to go deeper there.

Later the recruiter told me they weren’t going to consider my profile. The way it was

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