I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Quantcast in Feb 2016
Interview
Introductory call was nice but the technical phone screen was nonsense. As soon as the interviewer said "Hello", it became clear to me that he wasn't really interested in doing the interview and was simply going through the motions. I don't really know what he had against me - maybe he felt threatened by my credentials? My accent?Who knows.
Anyways, after introductions he started chewing food loudly into the phone as I was answering the questions, which was rude and unprofessional. I lost my enthusiasm because I absolutely did not want to work with such a person. I wanted to end the call there but decided to complete the interview just for practice.
His questions were vague and he was basically looking for excuses to fail me. The guy obviously has issues but he is not going to tell his co-workers what his issues are. Instead, he will continue to quietly sabotage candidates he won't like, wasting everyones time. I'm glad that I am not going to work for a company that has people like him in senior positions. It means that theres all kinds of politics going on in there. Those positive employee reviews here now look fake to me.
To sum up, don't waste ur time with them. You can use them for practice but I wouldn't waste a full day on an in-person interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were intentionally vague but they included the questions mentioned by the other reviewers.
Interview went with 7 interviews but got rejection because one person say no, all other says yes therefore I am confused that majority is saying and it is not about the technical part.
Take home assignment and follow up on the take home. Easy take home and easy follow up. Expect to explain your thought process and extend the take home assignment with another engineer.
Interview Screening - Talked to a hiring manager in a video call talked about the company, my experience, salary expectations, the next interview would have been a technical interview, and then a live coding interview.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Quantcast with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 52% positive. To compare, the company-average is 48.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 48 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Quantcast overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Quantcast as a Software Engineer according to 48 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 43%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 10%
Presentation: 8%
Background check: 6%
Group panel interview: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Personality test: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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