J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez DRW (Chicago, IL) en mars 2025
Entretien
A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn. Had a first round call with a senior Software Engineer. I had to send an email to the recruiter to tell someone to join me on the interview call after waiting for 30 minutes on zoom. I was given a take home assignment. Never heard back until I email the recruiter 3 days later; told they decided to never move forward after the review.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
- Simple questions around past experience on resume.
- Take home was a Tetris Game Engine (simplified)
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez DRW
Entretien
Leetcode like question with follow ups on c++ concepts like virtual memory, address space, etc. Coding everything from scratch and there’re also weird concepts like function pointer. Question was not too hard but need to remember concepts and syntax clearly
J'ai passé un entretien chez DRW (Londres, Angleterre)
Entretien
HR, take home coding tests, behavioral, technical discussion, live codings for several rounds.
The live codings are a bit hard. Some are about problems solving, some are about data structure and algorithms.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez DRW (Londres, Angleterre) en août 2025
Entretien
Did a set of interviews in summer 25. The interviews were not that difficult, mostly problems you'll face in real life. The interviewers themselves were mostly nice, although a couple seemed like they didn't care, not very involved in the process.
Got rejected due to 2 sections having "mixed signals": one generic "not deep enough", the other didn't like the approach to solving a problem (it was solved on time anyway). Funnily enough, got praised for using the same approach in other section. Mixed signals also came from the people who wouldn't have been on the same team.
It would be nice if interviewers were aligned on evaluation criteria, otherwise it becomes a guessing game.
Other that that it was a positive experience and the rejection was delivered by phone, not a generic email.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Some very down-to-earth problem on coding section, pleasantly surprised.
Unfamiliar algo problem, more like medium-hard.
And a data modelling exercise.