Intercom Software Engineer interview experience (2018)

Intercom Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

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Negative

Dublin, DublinPosted Mar 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview loop followed the kind of pattern Intercom seemed to rely on: a pre-screener plus a take-home assignment, then an HR screener, a technical screener, and then behavioral questions before an on-site day that mixed challenges with more behavioral follow-ups.

HR focused on my background and the projects I’d worked on.

In the technical screening, I was asked to work through challenges while talking through my thought process. They were attentive to time and space complexity, and they didn’t mind giving hints to steer me toward the approach they expected. That same emphasis showed up again in behavioral: it pulled heavily from leadership-principle style thinking, with questions that were very customer and impact oriented—how I’d improved someone’s day, and how I approached learning and growth.

I didn’t get through, and I think a big reason was

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Intercom Software Engineer interview experience

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