Quantcast·Software Engineer

Quantcast Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

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San Francisco, CAPosted Jul 2011 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a pretty decent overall experience with Quantcast, but the coding portion really threw me.

The assignment felt too tough relative to what I understood about the company and the day-to-day work they were focused on. Their technologies also didn’t seem like they were specialized in a way that made that particular coding challenge feel like the right fit.

Halfway through, I started to question whether it was even worth continuing, and I ended up submitting the solution incomplete. That part still bothers me, because it was a lazy decision on my end rather than a purely objective mismatch.

I didn’t get an offer, but I did take away that the process could be otherwise smooth and that

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