Indeed Senior Software Engineer interview questions

The engineer from Karat did a very good job of setting the stage in terms of expectations and possible outcomes prior to the interview. The interview process was also very smooth and the questions fair in accessing one's programming ability. The interview was borderline average-difficult, but it was an overall fair process.

One of the only interviews I've come out of and immediately knew I would decline even if presented an offer. First, the scheduling experience was pretty frustrating. I was asked via email for availability two weeks out. After not hearing anything for over a week, I emailed the recruiter about it, then got an email with a full-day interview schedule two days later. Of course, being someone with a current job, I can't just drop everything for a full day with 2 days notice. So again, I had to do that same exercise of providing availability 2 weeks out. For the actual interviews, it wasn't clear if anyone I talked to actually liked working at Indeed. There was very little passion or excitement. The interviews are also apparently federated across the entire company and (as far as I know) I didn't talk to a single person on the hiring team. Everyone was from a different team and org. As a job seeker, I would absolutely never take a position where I wouldn't at least talk to the hiring manager. Preferably I would talk with one or two people on the actual team as well. The questions were generally not super complicated. The programming exercise was a little frustrating as it easily could have been done as a take-home exercise rather than a middle-of-the-day "interview". There was no (nor expected to be) back-and-forth about the question or solution. Just a "hi, go implement this and we'll see you later." Overall it was definitely the lack of connection or excitement from any of the interviewers that really made the whole experience not worthwhile.