Wish·Software Engineer

Wish Software Engineer interview experience

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Toronto, ONPosted Feb 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My phone screen was very structured around a single coding problem you’d solve while the interviewer basically stayed hands-off.

I’d get a prompt from HackerRank (or something similar), and once they asked the question, there was long dead air on their side until I said I was done. There wasn’t much guidance or real collaboration.

The way they evaluated performance felt unusually strict: getting the right answer the first time mattered a lot, and iterating on a partial solution wasn’t encouraged. They also emphasized knowing Java SDK method names from memory, since the interface didn’t provide helpful autocomplete. It meant I had to be very precise about standard library calls rather than just coding logically. They

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