I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Vicarious (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2018
Interview
I had a couple of rounds of phone interview followed by onsite. While I had very clearly asked about coding requirements beforehand, I was shocked to see that they asked so many questions on C++ ( they had specifically mentioned python or C++ on their requirements. ). They announced the result after 3 weeks or more and told me that they were rejecting due to insufficient coding skills in C++. If they were so keen on C++ they could have told me when i asked them during phone interviews and I would not have wasted my time. The phone interviews were very light and had a simple coding problem to solve and they mostly talked about my research. The onsite was a nonstop barrage of interviews including during lunch (which is standard as per my experience with most of the companies). Some interviewers appeared very ill prepared. They had no idea about my background or what I had done, I guess because they did not attend my presentation. But some of them were very interested and asked great questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you have forgotten the last digit of your phone number and had only one call to make to your phone from a friend's phone; and upon calling you hear a busy tone. Whats the probability that it is your phone.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Vicarious (Union City, CA) in Oct 2018
Interview
Three online interviews.
1. Informal discussions with HR on interests, on how I found the company
2. One interview with an online coding round
3. Robotics / Computer Vision specific questions before the onsite
Six onsite.
Five with the members of technical staff
One with the CTO
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. HMMs
2. Robot motion planning
3. A problem with grasping and reinforcement learning
Roboticist applicants have rated the interview process at Vicarious with 4 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 50% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Roboticist roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Vicarious overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Vicarious as a Roboticist according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
Presentation: 14%
Other: 14%
Background check: 14%
Skills test: 14%
One on one interview: 14%
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