Pocket Gems·Software Engineer

Pocket Gems Software Engineer interview experience

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Pitts, PAPosted Mar 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I experienced an assessment-heavy process focused on string/data problems, using web-based coding tools, with a couple distinct question styles.

Online assessment (web/VM) — I took a timed test in a virtual machine web client with two questions total; one leaned on recursion and the other mixed string/data.
CoderPad-style technical interview — I was asked to solve an obscure problem involving less-common tree structures, then discuss what I’d do with those types.
Coding interview on a text editor — I worked through two function-style tasks: finding a substring and determining the K frequency number in an array.
Follow-ups during coding — Across the coding rounds, the interviewer support ranged from examples to

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