Scale·Software Engineer

Scale Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Nov 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter reached out and scheduled my call, I joined what turned into a tough phone screen.

It felt like the interviewer hadn’t really reviewed my background ahead of time. The first prompt wasn’t framed as language-agnostic or algorithmic; instead I was given a Python code snippet and asked to find what was wrong in it.

I hadn’t worked in Python, so I spent the early minutes trying to even make sense of the snippet, and it was naturally a struggle. After roughly ten minutes of that, the interviewer shifted gears into a more standard algorithmic problem, the kind where I could work in a language I knew. Once we got to that second part, I was able to implement the solution

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