Pocket Gems·Software Engineer

Pocket Gems Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

San Francisco, CAPosted Jan 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for Software Engineer with a pattern of coding questions that emphasized string parsing/search and graph/log-style reasoning.

Phone interview (coding) — I had a phone screen that started with two coding questions over about an hour, including finding a target’s first index within a string and parsing a ternary expression into a binary tree.
Lytmus challenge (two questions) — In another similar path, the OA was a Lytmus challenge with two questions: one about enumerating paths in a node graph from a start to an end node, and another about analyzing connected time intervals from a log-like input. Outcome: I didn’t get the offer; the takeaway was that correctness on parsing/algorithmic reasoning was

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