I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Quantcast (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2015
Interview
First had a phone conversation with recruiter. The recruiter was very nice and pleasant to talk with. Worked on a take home coding exercise and it took about 3 hours to complete. The phone screening took about an hour. A few days later I got the onsite interview invitation. The onsite interview took a few hours, met a few engineers and mostly worked on coding and algorithm.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the most challenging project you have worked on and described the challenge.
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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