I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Gemini (New York, NY)
Interview
I applied to Gemini through their website. A few hours later that same day I was contacted by a recruiter from Gemini to set up a phone call with him the following week. It was your average recruiter phone call (company information, culture, description of the interview process, expected compensation, etc). After the phone call I was sent a take home programming assignment. Very interesting task. It's intentionally left to be rather vague so that you can showcase your interpretation of the challenge. I submitted the challenge and was contacted 3 days later to set up my on-site interview. Couple of rounds, some code implementation, whiteboarding, general discussions. A few days later I received an offer. VERY positive process and by far the most swift/responsive company that I have ever interviewed with.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about your biggest professional failure and how you dealt with it.
Put me into 5 rounds of interviews to be rejected. It was mixture of easy and medium difficulty questions. Timing for interviews was bad where some of it was mid night or somewhere between mid night and morning.
Recruiter call, HM interview, onsite
- got contacted by recruiter only to get ghosted after he told me there were openings for multiple teams. doesn't look like they have their openings for engineering teams anymore anyway but i never got a proper update
Overall the interview process was professional.
Team manager was frank and honest about the workload.
Had a take home assignment.
Interviewers take good attention in analysing the skillsets I have.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
My experiences, some DSA and System Design questions.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Gemini with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 31% positive. To compare, the company-average is 35% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 16 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Gemini overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Gemini as a Software Engineer according to 16 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 31%
Skills test: 17%
One on one interview: 17%
Group panel interview: 11%
Presentation: 9%
Drug test: 6%
Background check: 6%
Personality test: 3%
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