Pocket Gems·Software Engineer

Pocket Gems Software Engineer interview experience

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Pittsburgh, PAPosted Apr 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for the Software Engineer role with a coding-heavy flow where early questions covered classic string/graph problems and the interviewer support felt positive.

Phone screen (coding-oriented) — We started with my game coding experience/background, then moved quickly into coding problems like implementing string search (e.g., strStr-style) and dealing with deep-copy graph logic.
Coding on a hosted editor — In another phone screen, the engineer had me solve the work on an online coding environment and stayed patient while I coded.
Online test (Lytmus, graphs + log parsing) — I also experienced an OA on Lytmus involving graph path finding and parsing a log into time intervals.
Follow-up phone question(s) — Across these rounds,

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