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      Associate Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 22, 2018
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at AlphaSights in Nov 2017

      Interview

      I applied online for the Associate Software Engineer position at AlphaSights online. I got a call a few weeks later from an HR representative and she went over details about the company and what the interview process would look like. She scheduled a technical video interview for a few weeks later. The interview was on Google Hangouts and after going over details on my resume, the interviewer asked to share my screen to solve the technical problem. The technical problem was ridiculous in it's scope and difficulty. It could've been a do-able problem but he only gave 20 minutes to solve it. The problem I entered below was exactly how it was presented to me. He asked me to read the problem and start typing a solution in my text editor. To make matters worse, as I was trying to solve the problem, I could hear the interviewer snoring. He was actually sleeping. It appeared that he woke himself up as I was typing my solution and ended the interview. The phone screen/HR portion of this process was smooth and professional. The technical portion was juvenile and degrading.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      You are planning a conference and have received many proposals which have passed the initial screen process but you're having trouble fitting them into the time constraints of the day. Let's write a program that reads a list of talks and organize them for us. The conference has multiple tracks each of which has a morning and afternoon session. Each session contains multiple talks. Morning sessions begin at 9am and must finish by 12 noon, for lunch. Afternoon sessions begin at 1pm and must finish in time for the networking event. The networking event can start no earlier than 4:00 and no later than 5:00. All talk lengths are either in minutes (not hours) or lightning (5 minutes).
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