I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Tinder in Sep 2017
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter and I had a 15-minute phone call with the recruiter. After the phone call we scheduled the technical interview. The technical interview was with two engineers. They asked a coding challenge question and some android specific questions.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Tinder (Los Angeles, CA) in May 2017
Interview
I've had the misfortune to interview here twice. Background - I'm a recent college grad with 1 year experience in the industry.
First time:
- Make you code a multiplayer tic tac toe game with NodeJS.
- After spending the time and tests to make this, they invite you onsite. They lock you in a room for 2 hours and give you a project to build in the onsite. Very bad as I was expecting ds/algo/system design questions because I felt I did the project part already. This felt like a cop out because I was expecting a traditional whiteboard interview from a company as big as Tinder. An onsite project like this is HARD for typical junior level developers.
A year later, second time, I aced the phone screen in record time. I was applying for a NodeJS Web Developer position in the Bay area and made it very clear to the interviewer that I wanted the web development position. And yet got a call from the recruiter the next day saying that I did not pass my interview to the Infra team in LA. WTF?! I never applied to the Infra team in LA! I tried correcting her and she did not budge in her decision. But I let it go as I received multiple offers already. Screw this company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Second interview:
1) A shuffled set contains unique numbers except one of the numbers appears twice. Find the number that appears twice. (Funny enough the interviewer had a custom random shuffler function to shuffle the set. But his shuffler function was not truly random as he would randomly pick indexes from 0--length of set and swap but this could pick the same indexes twice. Its technically buggy code, but I didn't dare mention something like that in an interview. Goes to show how "strong" the developers working in Tinder are. It also explains the numerous buggy user experience on the app)
2) Merge part in merge sort
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I applied online. I interviewed at Tinder (Los Angeles, CA)
Interview
phone screen followed by 2 set of phone interviews and eventually visited the headquarter. People were nice when you get a chance to talk to them. But the whole process seems chaos. HR rescheduled the interview at last minute, canceled some part of the onsite interviews. You won't hear any feedback within 2 weeks after each round. So frustrated!
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