Pocket Gems·Software Engineer

Pocket Gems Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Apr 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for the Software Engineer role and felt the process hinged on a specific backend language fit, which led to a rejection after multiple technical conversations.

Technical phone interviews (engineers) — I had two rounds of ~45-minute technical calls focused on fairly straightforward questions, written out in C++.
Additional phone interviews (engineers) — I then had two more ~45-minute conversations: one more behavioral, and one focused on my past experience.
Decision — I was rejected after the interviews because they were specifically looking for someone strong in Python server engineering. Outcome: I didn’t get the offer; the takeaway was that the role’s language requirements (Python) seemed decisive even when earlier

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