Interview Experiences

Real candidates, real loops: every round, what was asked, and how it ended.

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BNSFSoftware Engineer
Oct 2026

First Round Done, Five Back-to-Back Rounds Next

I don't remember the OA well. It was a medium-difficulty greedy problem about airplane seats. The first-round interviewer had been at the company for less than three years. She spent a long time introducing herself, and then asked me if I had any questions. She asked two BQs: one about a deadline, and one about whether I had ever had to onboard new people or act as a mentor. There was no screen s…

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BNSFSoftware EngineerSenior+
Oct 2026

Four One-Hour Rounds in One Day, Train-Themed Coding

There were four interviews in total, each one hour, all scheduled on the same day, with about a quarter of an hour of break between rounds. The first round was introducing a system I had worked on before and analyzing its architecture. The second round was a coding round, mainly focused on algorithms. The problem was similar to Meeting Rooms II, but with a train-related background. The third roun…

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BNSFSoftware Engineer
Sep 2026

One-Hour Technical Screen, Coding Then Design

The technical interview was one hour, split into two parts: the first half was writing a program, the second half was design. The problem was provided through a markdown file. It was a requirements doc for a REST API, roughly a price quote (rate inquiry) endpoint for some kind of railway freight, with other dependent services and database access operations involved. I was asked to write a sample…

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What are interview experiences?

An interview experience is a candidate's own account of a hiring loop — not a question bank entry. It tells you the shape of the process: how many rounds there were, what each round actually tested, how long the gaps between them ran, and what the recruiter said at the end. That context is the part a question list cannot give you.

How to read them

Weight recent write-ups more heavily — interview loops change, often within a year. Read several for the same company and role rather than one: a single account tells you what one interviewer asked, while five tell you what the bar is. Note the outcome badge too, since a rejection write-up usually explains the gap far more precisely than an offer one.

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Every published experience earns 50 XP, and each of the first 3 likes it receives in a day earns you 10 XP more. Likes must come from established accounts; like-for-like swaps and likes from your own second account are not paid. Write it while the details are fresh — the round order, the exact prompts, and how much time you were given are what the next reader needs.

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