I applied online. I interviewed at WhatsApp (Mountain View, CA)
Interview
After you send your resume, you will get a email to do some coding and send back the result in 1 hour. The question is about sorted linked list merge and merge sort linked list. After that you might have 1~2 Skype interview. Each one you should answer 2 coding question and discuss your background. For me the coding question are convert sorted linked list to BST, recover the linked list which has loop in it, regular expression for IP, array implementation of queue. Nothing to tricky. After that I went to the onsite interview. And I meet 8 people that day, including 2 co founders. The question are in a very wild range that you cannot expected. Compression Unicode, UDP TCP comparison, Linux kernel .... I realize there might now be NCG position, unless you are a rockstar. GGGL.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Operating system knowledge, Linux, Network protocol and etc.
I was given an in person, 90 minute interview with an engineer after contacting a recruiter. After several days they replied to me and said that I was not selected for the position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was asked to implement a list data structure with search and insert capabilities
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at WhatsApp (Menlo Park, CA) in Mar 2018
Interview
It was okay... not sure what they expect. I'm pretty sure I gave a good answer. took some time to come up with a solution - maybe that was the reason why. But i felt like in the end, I gave a solid solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
List of meeting times:
10-10:30
10-11:00
11:00-12:00
11:30-12:00
min # of rooms needed to accommodate all meeting rooms.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at WhatsApp
Interview
Received a boilerplate message via LinkedIn from the Whatsapp recruiter (I am not allowed to share her/his name). I said that I am interested, but all of my messages were ignored (even after months). That's very unprofessional behavior for on-site recruiter.
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at WhatsApp with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 41% positive. To compare, the company-average is 45.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 20 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at WhatsApp overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at WhatsApp as a Software Engineer according to 20 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 30%
Skills test: 23%
Personality test: 7%
Background check: 3%
Group panel interview: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
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