HR contacts me and arrange the first round of HR interview. Just go through the resume. Then ask me to answer 2 behavior questions, and to send him a code sample that I am proud of. After that, VP of engineering team view my resume and code sample, show interest to me, then I receive email from HR that I am required to complete a coding challenge, that implement a twitter-like backend system using SpringMVC framework.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To implement a twitter-like backend system using SpringMVC framework.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at ThousandEyes (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2015
Interview
I applied through their website. It's a very unfair process. I'm very disappointed that they asked me to do a coding challenge that took me 2 days and after their "review" they rejected without even offering me an interview to discuss it or a grade. Advice: Don't accept the coding challenge without being interviewed first, it is a total waste of time since other candidates will go in straight to a interview with a employee referral.
The coding challenge took me 2 days to complete because I wanted to impress and to test it well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a C++ program to execute a DNS query to top 10 websites and store the latency on a MySQL DB.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at ThousandEyes
Interview
Stay away. Very unprofessional. If they decide not to hire you, they will never get back to you, and will just leave you hanging. They will ask for code samples from you and a very time consuming coding challenge. They should have at least the decency of getting back to the candidates.