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San Francisco, CAPosted Feb 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a short recruiter phone call, then about a week later I had a shared, hour-long coding session using codeinterview.io.

After that, there was roughly another week before the onsite, which ended up being the longest interview day I’d ever done—about 7 hours. The centerpiece was an independent, on-site project on my own laptop: a three-hour full-stack build in a conference room based on exact printed instructions. I got a quick rundown of the task up front, then I worked solo while there was a halfway check-in. I also had a point of contact available (they even shared their desk location and phone number), but the instructions were clear enough that I never reached out.

The project time was followed by a

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