WWhatsapp·Software Engineer

Whatsapp Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Posted Feb 2012 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The early part of my process started with an interview about my resume and past experience.

After that, I went into two technical phone screens, and then I was brought onsite for a set of four interviews. The final conversation was with a co-founder, which made it feel like they were serious about seeing how I performed.

On the technical side, it was very fundamentals-heavy. There was a lot of focus on data structures and how my work mapped to what the company did, including discussion of core programming topics like sockets and lower-level systems thinking. I didn’t end up with an offer, but the interviews felt like they were probing both depth and how I reasoned when connecting

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