Our technical interviewing process starts with a Pair Programming session, which serves to assess your foundational hands-on coding skills before proceeding to the main interviewing round..

The Pair Programming interview is designed to understand your practical coding abilities in depth. It is a 60-minute session, including a brief introduction and 5 minutes at the end for any questions you may have.

Technical interviews are designed to measure more than just whether a candidate can write code. We are looking at three main areas:

• Technical Competency: : We evaluate your ability to apply your knowledge to the problem, focusing on the clarity, maintainability, and efficiency of the code you write.
• Problem Solving and Critical Thinking:: We look at your approach to a complex problem, including how you clarify requirements, break it down into manageable parts, consider various trade-offs and edge cases, and adapt your solution.
• Communication and Collaboration: This is a joint effort. We assess how effectively you explain your thought process, respond to feedback, discuss alternatives, and work collaboratively with your interviewer.

• Solving a practical coding challenge by applying algorithms and data structures effectively.
• Writing code that is correct and demonstrates good engineering practices in your chosen language.
• Demonstrating in-depth proficiency in using your preferred programming language to solve the problem.

What a Pair Programming interviews is not about:

• System design – this will be the focus of another interview
• Riddles, trick questions or logic puzzles
• General non-coding questions and deep-dive into things like your past experience and projects.

During a coding interview, we’ll assess whether you can write code that’s correct, readable and well thought-through. 

It’s ok to forget some specific method syntax (as you would google in real life), etc. Please tell the interviewer, and they will help you.

We’re mostly interested to learn how you think so please provide a narrative as you go through the code. 

We recommend reviewing:

• Computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, etc). 
• Make sure you have a fresh memory of the language of your choice.

The best possible way to succeed is to practise. There are many websites that contain a lot of useful information and questions you can practise solving such as leetcode.com, topcoder.com, coderbyte.com, hackerrank.com.

• It is crucial to understand the problem you have to solve. If the question is unclear or has been intentionally left open, always feel free to ask clarifying questions.
• While solving a problem, consider different algorithms and algorithmic techniques (such as sorting, divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming/memoization, and recursion).
• While solving a question, it’s good to think about different algorithms and algorithmic techniques (sorting, divide- and-conquer, dynamic programming/memoization, recursion, etc).
• It is important to know data structures and their performance characteristics, especially commonly used ones like arrays, lists, and hash maps.
• Thinking about how to modify the problem or breaking it down into smaller pieces can often be helpful.
• Remember that your interviewer is there to facilitate a discussion and assist you; do not hesitate to ask questions.

Good luck!