Pocket Gems·Software Engineer

Pocket Gems Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

AustraliaPosted Jan 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for the Software Engineer role in an unexpectedly straightforward timeline with very easy-feeling coding challenges.

Online coding — The first round was an online coding question set, and it felt shockingly easy for a senior position.
HR via email — Instead of a typical short HR call, I had an email exchange for HR discussion.
Onsite/remote onsite — At the onsite with an engineer, I got two questions: implement a strstr-like function in Java without using built-ins, where I discussed both a naive approach and a KMP-style idea, and I ended up implementing the naive method. Outcome: I didn’t get the offer; the takeaway was that even when rounds feel easy, selection can still come down to

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