EliseAI Software Engineer Interview Experience — 30-Minute Phone Screen with a Code-Reading Question

Format: 30 min video call. Mostly behavioral and experience questions, then a short code-reading exercise at the end.

Questions:

• Tell me about yourself
• What are you looking for in a new role?
• Talk about a technical thing you've implemented at a previous company, including the technical decisions.
• What was the hardest part about that?
• What's something your previous engineering team didn't do well?

Code read: He shared a short Java snippet and asked what I thought of it:

def foo(a):
    for i in range(len(a)):
        j = math.floor(random.random() * (i + 1))
        temp = a[i]
        a[i] = a[j]
        a[j] = temp
    return a

It's a string shuffle (Fisher-Yates style).