I had to make a phone call to a recruiter. He then told me about the interview process and the company. Then there were 5 follow-up interviews testing a variety of things.
The interview process was pretty standard in the sense that there are technical interviews with a couple people and then an on-site. The people are really nice and seem to enjoy their work as well. Nothing to really flag!
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Question 1
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Ab Initio (Boston, MA) in Sep 2023
Interview
Had a call with a hiring manger where the process was outlined. Then a technical interview with an engineer where I was asked to write a function to determine the longest palindromic substring in a given string.
I had a brief screen with a software engineer who asked a few common coding questions. It was a quick call with maybe 3 to 4 questions. I had trouble and the interviewer guided me in the right direction.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Ab Initio with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 27% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 22 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Ab Initio overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Ab Initio as a Software Engineer according to 22 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 41%
One on one interview: 32%
Presentation: 12%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Group panel interview: 3%
Other: 3%
Skills test: 3%
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