I applied online. I interviewed at T-Mobile in Sep 2020
Interview
Good
- Throughout the process, I got an opportunity to meet with a lot of T-Mobile engineers. They all were genuinely nice.
- Initial interview process is really good. You are screened with an easy level of Leetcode style questions. Then you're in a half-day interview which among others involves a live coding session. The great aspect of this live coding session is, you don't need to complete the code but demonstrate your ability of the language, using tools, TDD, thought process and even Googling skills.
Bad
The whole interview process is pretty long. I spent around ten hours between multiple interviews. It would be nice if they fail fast.
Ugly
Like some other people have mentioned, in the end, I also got ghosted by my recruiter (talent scout). What frustrates me the most is I always got good feedback after or even during the interview. One of the interviewers even encouraged me to accept the offer. I guess at the end of the day I wasn't a good fit. Considering I spent around ten hours interviewing, an answer, even a generic rejection letter, is not a lot to ask for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For a live coding session, you're given a set of questions around an hour before the interview.
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at T-Mobile (New York, NY)
Interview
Other companies could learn from this interview process. Very innovative. You are allowed to use Google and they like to see how you think, which makes the process very fair and effective. I did not do the first round coding well but aced the other rounds. They offered me a junior role which i declined.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
don't worry about getting a solution to run. focus on techniques like parsing an input, doing TDD etc. Google is allowed so you rushing your code to run is not going to help. take a deep breath and go step by step of the instructions. show them how you usually work, writing proper tests will get u good points
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at T-Mobile
Interview
Initial meeting was a recruiter, they set up an assessment test. You can do a demo test before your real, final test. So you don't even talk to anyone if you don't do well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Two questions in 45 minutes. My questions were both on matrices. Question 1, a matrix represents an image, if you get a flag ( 1 or 0) it will rotate the matrix left or right. Question 2, yet another question.