Indeed Interview Questions

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Levenshtein Edit Distance

An edit distance is a way to quantify how different two strings are. This is calculated using **the minimum number of transformations to turn one string to another**. The transformations include insertion , deletion , and substitution . So when comparing two identical strings, say cat and ca...

Difficulty: 7/10

Targets and Vicinities

You're playing a game with a friend called **Target and Vicinity**. *Target and Vicinity* consists of one person thinking up a number in their head, and the other guessing that number. Sounds simple enough the caveat is that we also want to credit close guesses. To estimate the proximity of the ...

Difficulty: 6/10

Max Product of Three Numbers

Given an unsorted array of integers, can you write a method maxProductOfThree unsorted: array to find the largest product from three of the numbers? For example, given the following array: 1, 9, 22, 3, 15, 7 The largest product of three numbers is 2310 . This results from 15 * 7 * 22 ...

Difficulty: 5/10

Majority Element

Suppose we're given an array of numbers like the following: 4, 2, 4 Could you find the majority element? A majority is defined as "the greater part, or more than half, of the total. It is a subset of a set consisting of more than half of the set's elements." Let's assume that the array l...

Difficulty: 3/10

Find First Non-Repeating Character

You're given a string of random alphanumerical characters with a length between 0 and 1000 . Write a method to return the first character in the string that does not repeat itself later on. So if we had a string input of "asdfsdafdasfjdfsafnnunl'" , we can see there are multiple letters that...

Difficulty: 4/10

Design A Least Recently Used (LRU) Cache

A cache pronounced cash is a place of storage that allows for faster data retrieval. Separate from the main data storage, it's usually faster memory that houses frequently accessed values. With a cache in place, when a client application needs to access data, it'll check the cache first befo...

Difficulty: 7/10

Fibonacci Sequence

Implement a function that returns the Fibonnaci number for a given integer input. In a Fibonacci sequence, each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. The simplest is the series: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc. This is because: fibonacci 0 0 fibonacci 1 1 fibonacci 2 1 fibonacci 3 ...

Difficulty: 4/10

Implement a Stack With Minimum

Recall that a stack is an abstract data type modeling a collection of elements. Its primary operations are push which adds an element to the top of the stack and pop which removes the most newest element . Traditionally, a stack can easily be implemented in many dynamic languages using an a...

Difficulty: 6/10

Find Duplicate Words

A very common interview challenge is to determine how often words appear in a given string or set of strings. Here's a version of this: return a list of duplicate words in a sentence. For example, given 'The dog is the best' , returns "the" . Likewise, given 'Happy thanksgiving, I am s...

Difficulty: 4/10

A Systems Design Interview Primer For New Engineers

**Objective**: In this lesson, we'll introduce systems design interviews, and focus on these outcomes: You'll learn what **systems design** is. We'll walk you through **the various concepts you should know** to design highly reliable and performant systems. We'll show you how to get ...

Difficulty: 5/10

An Introduction to Software Design Patterns

What are software design patterns? Software design patterns are general, reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software development. Design patterns are not libraries or frameworks that you can plug in and use right away. Rather, they are established suggested ways of thinking t...

Difficulty: 5/10

Cloud Computing Pricing Analysis and Comparisons

Cloud Computing Pricing Analysis and Comparisons Companies today are soaring high, navigating the limitless sky of cloud computing, leaving behind the grounded world of on premises data. Why? It's all about growth, agility, and, importantly, cutting down on expenses. Imagine your data as a flock...

Difficulty: 5/10

People at Indeed Say

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Politics is seeping into the engineering culture. Your fate and growth depend on your manager and how much they know how to play it. If you don't have an idea how things work here(being an engineer), you will be manipulated until you know what the right expectations are. You won't be rewarded what you deserve in a direct manner. Instead, the management will torture you to yield your fullest so that you think that you really achieved it and the bar is high which in reality was not. Help people understand what's the right thing to do and what the right expectations are. Don't manipulate them in the name of motivation. Think about building the long-term trust of an employee. Don't bully employees and let them bullied by anyone else, sooner or later they are gonna get out of it some way or the other.

Great perks and salary, and depending on the team you get to - smart co-workers and challenging technical work. No more than lip service for diversity initiatives. No viable career path for individual contributors. Women engineers that are not in management languish in the same level for years, and their contributions are not recognized or valued. If you are a female engineer, there are much better companies out there that will value you. Projects and teams randomly move around various engineering offices because they hire too many engineers without actually having a plan for what they would work on. Some engineering managers put on act of being humble while doing nothing to help advance the careers of those who report to them. Learn from other tech companies that are doing more than just lip service in their diversity initiatives.

Great corporate culture of Diversity and Inclusion. Supports various social groups with Indeed. A great mission to help job seekers. I have seen the decline in the quality of offerings, but food is a huge motivator for some jobseekers. I prefer to get paid and choose what and where I dine. The PMO at Indeed is dead. No movement since February of 2019. No guidance or directives, no training or support. The reality is that the "Program" side of Indeed wanted to downsize, and discovered that with the bad (unskilled project managers) the best and brightest also left Indeed. There is a weird vacum of talent and project focus. Programs are vague and Program Manages typically just monitor team work and jira tickets.

There are a lot of perks here. Work life balance is good (mostly), open PTO, competitive salary, and then of course the ability to travel as well as office niceties (coffee bar, free food and snacks, etc). Leadership truly does care about the employee experience. The culture has changed a lot as a result of too rapid growth and expansion with minimal change management, and unfortunately the collaborative, idea driven, innovative aspect of the company that made it such a unique place to work has been lost in a lot of ways.