IIntercom·Software Engineer

Intercom Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

London, EnglandPosted Oct 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I came in through an internal recruiter outreach, and the process started with a 45-minute video call that was very much about alignment—especially whether the role and compensation made sense for me.

After that, the next interview was scheduled and it was split into two phases with a short break.

The first phase was problem solving in a whiteboard environment. The tooling itself was frustrating, including pauses and freezes while I was coding, and the problem was bigger than I expected: it required implementing methods in a class and involved juggling hashmaps and partitioned arrays, with multiple nested loops. Even though it felt like a lot to complete, the interviewer was also clear that I didn’t need to finish everything to continue the conversation.

The second phase was a values

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