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Amazon DSPSoftware Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

Amazon DSP Software Engineer technical loop with leadership-principle bar raiser

After a recruiter conversation, I had a roughly hour-long technical phone screen. Once I cleared it, the process moved into scheduled loop interviews. It was structured, but intense. The loop combined coding with Amazon-style leadership discussions. I had two coding-heavy sessions: one began at medium LeetCode difficulty and another went into harder territory. There was also a system-design discu…

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Amazon Development Center U.S.Software Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer Java Spring Boot debugging loop

After a recruiter call, I had a technical phone screen of about an hour with practical engineering questions. Once I cleared it, I entered the loop. The loop combined coding, systems thinking, and Amazon Leadership Principles. I solved LeetCode-style problems, discussed system design, and completed a STAR-format behavioral round. In one round, I used an AI-enabled setup to debug code in a Java/Sp…

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Amazon Development Center U.S.Software Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

Amazon Development Center U.S. Software Engineer four-round coding and leadership loop

After an online assessment, I entered a deliberate loop meant to assess both coding and engineering judgment, with leadership principles throughout. The loop had four rounds: two coding interviews, a behavioral conversation built around Amazon Leadership Principles, and a hiring-manager round with another coding problem plus a high-level design discussion. One coding round started with a medium p…

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Bank Of America Merrill LynchFinancial Analyst
Reported Jun 2026

Bank Of America Merrill Lynch Financial Analyst market leader and client role-play

After a recruiter call, I waited about a week for a market-leader conversation and then had a final meeting with a regional executive. The structure was consistent, with the recruiter and leadership each pressure-testing my fit. The questions centered on personality: why I wanted the role, how work ethic appeared in my prior experience, what I thought the job involved, and how my background match…

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Baker HughesSoftware Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

Baker Hughes Software Engineer recorded HireVue and salary-range screen

The recruiter conversation focused heavily on salary expectations, especially whether I would accept the low end of the posted range, instead of fully exploring what the role required. The process then relied on recorded interviews. I completed a one-way HireVue-style screen with a handful of behavioral questions about motivation and STAR examples. A timer started as recording began, so I felt wa…

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Cadence Design SystemsSoftware Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

Cadence Design Systems Software Engineer CEO final round followed by ghosting

The process started promisingly and reached a final conversation with the CEO. Along the way, I felt the team was engaged and that I was a strong match. I was told directly that they really wanted to hire me. After the CEO meeting, everything went quiet. I was completely ghosted and did not hear anything for months. I did not receive an offer. The interviews had gone well, but the lack of closure…

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Kiewit CorporationSoftware Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

Kiewit Corporation Software Engineer recruiter, superintendent, and double in-person interview

This process was more intense and segmented than easier conversational screens I had experienced elsewhere. It began with a recruiter call, then a Zoom conversation with a local higher-up superintendent. From there, I had a double in-person interview with a project manager and a project sponsor, who was a senior, high-impact person. The people were wonderful, and the process was organized and pro…

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ADCI - KarnatakaSoftware Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

ADCI - Karnataka Software Engineer technical phone screen before loop

The process began with a phone screen that lasted about an hour or more. It was mostly technical questions. After I cleared that step, I moved into the loop interview. The loop was the next stage after the initial screen. Difficulty was average, and I did not receive an offer. The first call set the tone because it tested technical thinking right away rather than serving as a casual introduction.…

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ADCI - KarnatakaSoftware Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

ADCI - Karnataka Software Engineer four-hour loop and shadow-deployment design

The process began with an HR screening that included two LeetCode questions, then an HR manager screening. After that came four hour-long loop interviews, so it felt like a full interview day rather than a brief conversation. The loop included three medium LeetCode questions and one system-design interview. The design topic was shadow-deploying test software to millions of users. It made me think…

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ADCI - KarnatakaSoftware Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

ADCI - Karnataka Software Engineer silicon-team domain, design, and C rounds

I interviewed for the silicon team. The loop was clear about what each round covered, and each interview lasted about 50 minutes. The first round focused on domain-specific knowledge. The second moved to system design, and the third covered C coding. The overall difficulty was average, and I did not receive an offer. What I remember is how deliberately the responsibilities were separated: domain…

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TSMCSoftware Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

TSMC Software Engineer one-hour manager interview about role and experience

The manager was very nice, and the interview matched what I expected for an engineering role. It lasted about an hour and covered role-related topics alongside my previous experience. The straightforward structure made it easier to focus on my background. The questions did not seem designed to be tricky. They were about matching my experience to what the team needed. It felt average in difficulty…

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Air Liquide Home HealthcareSoftware Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

Air Liquide Home Healthcare Software Engineer electronics experience online interview

My first step was an online interview that felt comfortable and smooth. The interviewer asked about my technical knowledge and my experience in electronics. It was not confrontational or excessively technical. It felt like a conversation about how I thought and what I had done. The interviewer also helped me understand the role and how my background could translate into contributions at the compa…

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ADCI - KarnatakaSoftware Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

ADCI - Karnataka Software Engineer four-interview leadership and GenAI loop

After an initial recruiter touchpoint, I went through a four-interview loop built around Amazon-style leadership principles. Three interviews were with people from the team I might have joined, and the last was with a bar raiser from another organization. Two interviews were coding-focused. One was LeetCode style and another leaned into system design. I also had a general GenAI round, so it was n…

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Woven By ToyotaFull Stack Software Engineer
Jun 2026

Woven by Toyota 2 YOE Onsite

Two coding rounds. First question was a merge intervals variant dressed up as “Detect attacks along a horizontal line from 0 to 10.” The idea being you have a list of ‘attacks’ represented as intervals of integers/floats (e.g. [1, 2], [3.4, 5.2], and you need to merge the attack intervals to determine T/F representing if the horizontal line was attacked/blanketed in its entirety. Second question…

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VoleonData Scientist
Jun 2026

Python File Handling Before an Open-Ended Regression Task

Question format The interviewer gives one or more datasets: X: contains multiple features, possibly an m x n matrix y: a continuous, real-valued target You're expected to explore: which columns are related to y which features provide useful signal whether there's redundant information or collinearity among the features how you should build and evaluate a predictive model Before that part, there w…

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SalesforceSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

Rushed Team Match, Ghosted Before the Onsite

This was a really baffling hiring process. Is Salesforce's general hire now all team-specific interviews instead of a unified track? Round 1: OA — sent later on, an online test on the HackerRank platform. If I remember right it was LeetCode-style stuff, not too hard, but the test cases were kind of annoying. After I passed, about a month later an HR person reached out — but it wasn't the general-…

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MercorSoftware Engineer
May 2026

Half-Hour Online Round of Code Review and Design Questions

Writing up an earlier Mercor fullstack round. It was online, about half an hour, and after I passed I got an onsite. It was mostly reading code to find problems and talking about design. I'm putting this together from my notes, so the order may not match what actually happened. Payment API Code that first calls an external provider to charge the customer, then writes a record to our own database.…

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WaymoSoftware Engineer
May 2026

Cleared Every Round, Then Told They Wanted Someone More Senior

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EquinixFrontend Engineer
May 2026

HR Call, Then HM Round, Rejected When Headcount Filled

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ByteDanceBackend EngineerIntern
May 2026

A Fundamentals Marathon and a Second Shot at an Old Coding Question

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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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