Interview Experiences

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

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RobinhoodBackend Engineer
Jun 2026

Role Filled Before I Got Results

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RipplingSoftware EngineerSenior+
Jun 2026

Deep HM Round on AI and Platform Projects, Then a Rejection

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

Coding, System Design, and BQ in One 55-Minute Call

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Point72Data Scientist
Jun 2026

A Week-Long Take-Home Already Posted on GitHub

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

Two OA Questions: Drone Routing and an AI-Assist Debugging Round

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LangChainSoftware EngineerSenior+
Jun 2026

Take-Home Optimization Then Three Onsite Rounds in One Day

First I talked with the recruiter, then they gave me a take-home with one week to finish. The take-home was optimizing a benchmark testing setup — there's a POST endpoint and a GET endpoint, using S3 as the database. The version they hand you originally reads the whole JSON out every time and uses string find to look for the offset. The overall speed of the POST was about 20+ seconds, and the goa…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

OA With a Movie-Watchlist Fullstack Debug Challenge

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DatadogSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

A Filesystem DeleteTree Design Problem with Five Memory Follow-ups

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OpenAISoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

A Grid-Path DP Question with Three Follow-ups

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MicrosoftSoftware EngineerSenior+
Jun 2026

A Two-Day Virtual Onsite with a Strange AI Fluency Round

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Chicago Trading CompanyC++ EngineerNew Grad
Jun 2026

One Technical Pass, Then Rejected Before Final Behavioral

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RobloxSoftware EngineerSenior+
Jun 2026

HM Round, Then a Repeat 'Most Frequent Call Stack' Coding Question

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GrindrData Scientist
Jun 2026

HM Round, SQL Screen, Three-Person Onsite Panel (and a Recruiter Rant)

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GoogleSoftware EngineerSenior+
Jun 2026

Three Coding Rounds, One BQ Round, and a Declined L3 Downgrade

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SnowflakeSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

Onsite Coding and Job Scheduler System Design, No Offer

Coding: this was an OO design problem I hadn't seen anywhere on the forum before, implementing two functions. One function is addTask(taskId, priority, timestamp) — the same task can be added multiple times at different timestamps. The other is executeTask(), which is the tricky part — you first sort by priority, and if a task has already been executed, you skip it. System design: job scheduler.…

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J.P. MorganSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

Phone Screen, Then a Code Review Round and a System Design Onsite

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CoupangData Scientist
Jun 2026

7 Hours of Interviews, Only 1.5 Technical

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NetflixData ScientistSenior+
Jun 2026

Technical Screen, Not Sure Where I Went Wrong

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J.P. MorganSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

Passed Superday, Then a Month of Silence on Team Match

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GoogleSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

Two Technical Rounds, Meeting Room II and Top K Variant

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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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