Pocket Gems·Software Engineer

Pocket Gems Software Engineer interview experience

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Los Angeles, CAPosted Feb 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for Software Engineer with OA-to-phone progression where I felt the questions were manageable, but I still failed one of the later steps.

Online coding challenge — After applying, I received an online test (including variants of substring-style string problems in one case).
Phone interviews — I then had phone interviews where they asked one or two technical questions (in one flow, two coding questions in the call).
Second phone step failed — In another version, I didn’t pass the second phone screen even though I thought my answers were decent.
Outcome timing — The overall process took about a month in these paths. Outcome: I didn’t move forward; the takeaway was that the bar was narrower than

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