Profound Software Engineer Interview Experience — A Recruiter Screen and an AI-Assisted Coding Exercise

Profound·Software Engineer·Apr 2026
Technical ScreenHR Screeneasy

This place is pretty interesting, they do AI marketing. It's kind of like doing SEO for AI's answers. There were two rounds. The first was with a recruiter, and after chatting for about 15 minutes they asked me to do a coding exercise, and I was allowed to use AI. The problem was roughly: they give you some API endpoints, with docs telling you what each API does, and in the end you pick a few of those APIs to implement — creating an account, adding funds, checking your balance, then spending credit and checking your balance again.

So I opened up Codex, typed in the requirements from the coding exercise, and it generated the code.

When I ran it, I hit a problem — the docs didn't tell you what the API endpoint URL was, or what the key was. So the AI-generated code couldn't run. You had to open the docs site in a browser, run the example there yourself, and inspect the network calls to see the actual request — that's how you'd find that info. Overall the difficulty was pretty low, it just took about 15 minutes to get it all done.

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Interview at a glance

Company
Profound
Role
Software Engineer
Rounds
HR Screen → Technical Screen
Difficulty
easy
Interview date
Apr 2026
Questions from this interview
1 question

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