Interview Experiences

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IntuitMachine Learning Engineer
Sep 2026

Measuring Meeting-Free Work Time

The report presents an Intuit AI Science technical-screen exercise reconstructed from images. The task uses a year of company meeting records to assess how much uninterrupted coding time employees have during business hours. Each attendance record identifies an employee and a meeting, together with joining and leaving times. Candidates are asked to determine the longest available interval for eac…

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IntuitStaff Software EngineerSenior+
Aug 2026

Two Long Screens and a Final-Round Rejection

Intuit's interview process had two rounds. The process was long, but HR was patient. The final round was a big production too. First round: Coding The interviewer was very nice and kept encouraging me. The first coding problem was to design a rate limiter. Requirement: design a rate limiter that allows five people through during each time period. Then the design was extended: when VIP users arriv…

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IntuitSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Intuit Software Engineer interview

The recruiter screen began casually with background and fit questions. They also asked for my views on AI, which felt more like checking my perspective than testing technical knowledge. That tone did not hold in every recruiter interaction. One recruiter became defensive when I was candid about my leveling expectations, and the exchange turned frustrating. In another recruiter-led rejection, the…

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IntuitSoftware EngineerSenior+
Jun 2026

75-Minute Screen With Plus One and an LLM-Agent System Design

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IntuitSoftware Engineer 1
Jan 2026

Tree, SQL, and a Bash File-Size Question

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IntuitData Scientist
Oct 2025

TurboTax Take-Home, Growth Team Onsite, and a Slow Recruiter Process

First there was a TurboTax home assignment, then a 45-minute presentation plus Q&A. In this part they ask about the recommendations you make based on the data, whether your assumptions are reasonable, and what other data you could look at. I remember there being a question like that, and I didn't have a good answer at the time. The task was predicting whether tax filing succeeds or not, and there…

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IntuitData Analyst
Oct 2025

Rejected as Overqualified After a 4-Round Onsite

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IntuitSoftware Engineer
Sep 2025

Phone Screen With an AI Prompting Round, Then Silence

Got a reach-out from HR two weeks ago and scheduled it. The phone screen was 45 minutes of algorithms + 30 minutes of AI conversation Q&A, all in one call. 45 min algorithms: One medium-difficulty problem One easy problem — basically detecting in a React environment whether user input is a valid palindrome 30 min AI: Mainly about whether you know how to use current gen AI tools and whether you ca…

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IntuitData Scientist
Aug 2025

Four Rounds in Three Hours, Starting With a Live Take-Home Presentation

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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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