I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Jacobs (San Diego, CA) in Sep 2019
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me on the phone. The recruiter left a message, however, I could not understand a single word she said in the message so I returned her call.
I had a technical interview over the phone with 2 engineers. They said it went great and would like to have me come in for another round of interviews.
I never heard back from the company. I reached out to the two recruiters I had been working with form Jacobs and they never responded to my emails. Very unprofessional. I certainly have no intention of ever working for Jacobs and will also tell my experience to others in the field so they too do not waste time interviewing with this company.
Recruiter screen > Panel interview
Pretty straightforward and the actual interview was easy. Pure behavioral questions and only a few questions on OOP. Got rejection email about 2 months later
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What kind of projects have you contributed to ? How do you handle conflicts when building in a team?
Quite an easy process: a simple coding task and a simple system design question. It's good to know how to operate on streams and know message brokers. Would recommend taking part in it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Cache problem with application.
Write easy coding task and test it using unit tests
I had a first stage half hour chat, followed by a two hour conversation with technical and behavioural questions. I had met the person interviewing me at a conference, and overall it was friendly,