I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at IXL Learning (San Mateo, CA) in May 2015
Interview
The hiring process was pretty typical. I had a quick phone screen with a member of their recruiting team followed by a Coding Test (to make sure I didn't lie about my coding knowledge), a follow up technical phone screen and finally an on-site.
During the phone screens they asked very typical SWE questions that you might find in Cracking the Coding Interview, but for the on-site they ramp up the difficulty and ask many different kinds of problems including those they have faced on the job. I had 4 or 5 interviews and got a chance to go out to eat with 3 current employees at a nice restaurant in San Mateo :)
People were incredibly friendly throughout the process and very patient if I made a silly mistake.
Lengthy interview process with a super day at the end. 4 OAs to complete, all of these being quite easy. Then you move on to a technical round which you can solve if you practice enough leetcode hards. Final round is 3 technical interviews and a behavioral. I recommend reviewing priority queues.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me about my resume and about one specific project that I worked on and what I learned.
Leetcode question live with a engineer that was related to data structures and algorithms. around 30 minutes. On zoom. They gave special link to do the exam on and they told you question and let you run it .
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode questions similar to medium/hard level (stuff with hash maps)
There are multiple rounds. Starts with a phone call with a recruiter. After that, there is a technical round with an engineer, Then after that, it was three back to back technical rounds in the same day.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at IXL Learning with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 35% positive. To compare, the company-average is 31.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 181 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at IXL Learning overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at IXL Learning as a Software Engineer according to 181 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
One on one interview: 22%
Skills test: 15%
Presentation: 14%
Group panel interview: 3%
Other: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Drug test: 1%
Background check: 1%
Personality test: 1%
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