The recruiter was nice and responsive.
Interviewed by 5 people on technical skills. The first one was a panel interview with three people. The second one was 1:1 video interview. The first 4 interviewers were good and attentively listening and provided clarification to the questions.
The last one was 1:1 video interview scheduled for 45 mins and the interviewer took the interview for 1 hour 25 mins. The interviewer’s camera was never turned on during the interview. The interviewer keeps typing something on the computer and I could hear the sound. Sometimes I was not sure if the Interviewer was actively listening or not as there was no response. The interviewer will keep interrupting and cut you off, doesn’t let you finish explaining your thoughts completely.
The interviewer started giving coding questions just 10 mins before the end of 45 mins schedule duration. Once you propose a solution and start writing code the Interviewer suddenly changes the contract/problem in the middle.
Simultaneously traversing two arrays with two different pointers takes O(M+N) time and the Interviewer was saying it is O(N square).
Overall the last interview experience was quite intimidating. Respect the interviewees and their time, please !!!
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Question 1
Questions were about in-depth knowledge of the technical skills you put in the resume, Dynamic programming, standard Leet code questions, System design ..etc
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Dell Technologies (Boston, MA) in May 2022
Interview
My interview with Dell technologies has been confusing. I have recently interviewed with Dell for a fully remote job. After the initial screening round, they took about 2 weeks to schedule the (loop) 1-1 rounds with the team which took around a week's time.
During the process, I happened to receive an email that they would take a few weeks to communicate the outcome. Since I have received another offer immediately after the Dell interviews, I'd tried to get in touch with the hiring HR but could never get in touch with them. It felt like they do not care to communicate with the candidates whom they do not want to proceed with. Its has been over a month since I've interviewed and they was never any kind of communication from the HR on the outcome. After about 2-3 weeks, I visited my account out of curiosity and was able to see the status that they are not proceeding with this.
I find this rather unprofessional and confusing. Honestly, I wasn't expecting this from a huge company like Dell.
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Question 1
Was asked whether I was comfortable working with Python, encryption and other storage technologies.
The interviewer was very polite and asked more of conceptual questions. Technical discussion on C++ concepts, OOPS concepts, programming questions and logical questions, data structures.
Interview lasted for around 1 hour.
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Question 1
reverse a linked list
questions on core dump
post compilation process
why c++ over Java/C#