Average live coding session, followed by a system design interview and then a conversation with a director. I got through all of the rounds. I found the system design interviews and interviewers to be the least informative ones and provided very little guidance throughout. Despite the fact that I knew about this system design question in previous reviews, the interviewers were a little overcomplicating things and wanted me to think in a very abstract way. This might have just been my interviewers though.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a lottery system for picking a winner of a sneaker release.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at GOAT Group (Culver City, CA) in Mar 2020
Interview
Was reached out by a recruiter. Interview process consisted of a technical phone screen and then on site interview.
Phone screen was mostly about easy/medium coding challenge and On-site was behavior and Design questions.
Engineers were super nice but I felt like my interview with leadership team was bit weird. The discussion on pros of using monolithic architecture on such a large scale was not at all convincing.
Recruitment couldn’t fulfill their stated commitments on decision but that could be probably due to Corona virus so all good on that part .
Backend Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at GOAT Group with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 37.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Backend Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at GOAT Group overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at GOAT Group as a Backend Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 50%
Phone interview: 50%
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