Quantcast·Software Engineer

Quantcast Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Posted May 2012 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started off on a positive note: I did a regular phone screen with a code exercise, and then they invited me onsite for a full day.

The onsite took about seven hours, and it was intense—algorithm-heavy problems that leaned on things like graph-style questions, recursion, and map-reduce-style thinking. I felt like I’d put in real effort, but it was still extremely challenging.

After the onsite, the recruiter told me I hadn’t made the cut for the software engineer role. Instead, they said they liked me for a Scrum Lead position and that I wouldn’t have to repeat the whole loop. I was even told it would be the last step and I’d get a decision after the second onsite. A few days later, though, I had to redo the entire onsite

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