J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Intrepid Pursuits (Boston, MA) en mars 2018
Entretien
I submitted my resume through their online system, and was contacted to set up a phone screen. I sent my available times, but it still took sometime for the recruiter to get back to me and confirm a time.
After the phone screen, a technical phone screen with a developer was set up. I was ask to code the solution to two problems.
From there an onsite interview was set up. I met three developers, they were very friendly and made me feel relaxed. The first interviewer just asked basic questions about my resume, work history, and project. I was also asked a few react and redux questions.
The second interviewer asked some general questions regarding RESTful APIs, personal experiences, and gave me a whiteboard challenge on Entity Relationship diagram, that basically involved taking a short prompt and white boarding the database relationships, HTTP routes,and URLs.
The final interview was white boarding the solution to two algorithm problems and talking a bit about my background and experiences.
I was told I would know in a week if I was going to receive an offer or not. I received an email on Monday saying a decision had been made and was ask to schedule a phone call for the net day. I sent my available times and received no call the next day. Finally, on Wednesday the recruiter called and told me they decided no. My overall experience interviewing with intrepid was pretty good up until that point. I feel as though the recruiter could have said in the initial email on Monday that they had decided not to move forward and ask if I wanted to schedule a phone call to hear feedback as to why, rather than have me stress for 2 nights, just to call and tell me its a no.
Questions d'entretien [2]
Question 1
Write a function that converts a string input of standard time to military time.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Intrepid Pursuits (Boston, MA) en mars 2019
Entretien
An initial phone screening, followed by a technical screening, followed by flying me to their Boston Headquarters for a three-hour interview. There were whiteboarding challenges, questions about my general development experience, and questions about Entity Relationships.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Create a function that analyzes an array of stock prices over time and returns the maximum possible profit when buying and subsequently selling.
I got through the first step where I was asked mostly about my background. I also was asked about my knowledge of the company and given a thorough explanation about how the apprenticeship works.
I want to start with saying, that because Intrepid is part of Accenture they have a lot of funds to go though many applicants a fly people out. Therefore, don't get your hopes up, you're not done until you get the offer.
Recruiting Process breakdown:
A. 30 min phone screen for cultural fit with recruiter
B. 30 min phone screen with engineer (white-boarding)
C. on-site 1:1 ( culture fit and casual tech talk)
D. on-site 1:1 (white-boarding)
E. on-site 1:1 (relational database question - quite confusing for some - get to know Entity Relation Diagrams with Lucid Charts)
I have mixed feeling about my experience. On the one hand I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to recruit with them, because it was an excellent learning experience, since I'm at the beginning of my career. However, there is a part of me that feels like they are privileged to recruit top talent, while not putting much effort into it (maybe that's how thing are nowadays).
You're never in direct contact with the engineers, you're only e-mailing a bunch of recruiters. It feels like you're just a "ticket" to resolve in their corporate hr system.
The engineers recruiting you at times seem very inexperienced, so why would they be able to spot talent, if they're just following a script.
The reason why it felt like that, was when I arrived to their headquarters, the person I was supposed to meet was not there... I never met them. And the person that swooped in was the same person that did the technical interview over the phone. She said, "You're not supposed to have the same person interview you twice.... meh... I guess we can start with the database portion, since person A is not here..." that really threw me off guard... and when I finished the interview process, I saw an e-mail that was sent to me about some prep work, a day too late. They forgot (???). I must say that I could have lost this one to someone's bad mood that day.
Be wary of someone's unprofessionalism my fellow code babies.