Interview Experiences

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

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MicrosoftSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

Onsite, Then the HM Round No-Showed

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MetaSoftware EngineerSenior+
Feb 2026

An AI Coding Round Built Around a Maze Problem

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TikTokSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

Three Rounds Heavy on Scalability and Distributed Systems

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CoinbaseSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

Passed Every Round, Lost to a More Experienced Candidate

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SalesforceSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

Seven Rounds Ending in an Onsite Rejection

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AxonSoftware EngineerSenior+
Feb 2026

Camera Footage Upload Design, Advancing to a Five-Round Onsite

The well-known stun gun company Axon, phone screen. I applied for Senior Engineer I. HR told me the phone screen would already need to happen in San Diego, and only after that would they decide which direction to move me in. The interviewer was a senior engineer, with a newly joined staff engineer shadowing. The question was pretty much the same as other write-ups on this forum — it was about upl…

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GoogleSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

A 180-Degree OCR Twist in the Onsite Loop

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NVIDIASoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

Screening to Onsite, and LeetCode's NVIDIA Tag Didn't Help

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AppleSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

Two Rounds, Pure Coding

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InstacartSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

An OA Question About Workers Nobody Had Seen Before

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LinkedInMachine Learning Engineer
Feb 2026

Two Coding Rounds, an ML Foundations Deep Dive, and a LinkedIn Skills Design Question

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RevolutSoftware EngineerNew Grad
Feb 2026

Rejected After a Concurrency Deadlock

I applied for the New Grad Java Backend Engineer role, base EU. The whole process was 1x OA + 1x Recruiter Screening + 2x VO (virtual onsite). Quick complaint first: I applied in October, and the recruiter didn't reach out until late January... The OA was on HackerRank — two easy coding problems plus a bunch of multiple-choice questions, including some simple algorithm questions and some picture-…

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AirbnbSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

Rejected After Onsite Deep Dive Over Background Fit

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AnthropicEngineering Manager
Feb 2026

Five Rounds and a Suspiciously Familiar Design Review

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OpenAISoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

A Toy Language Coding Question and a Crossword Puzzle System Design

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CitadelData Scientist
Feb 2026

Interviewer Freezes Mid-Screen, Then Asks Me to Estimate a Constant

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TubiAssociate Machine Learning Engineer
Feb 2026

Waitlisted After a Surprise AI-Assisted Coding Round

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InstacartMachine Learning Engineer
Feb 2026

Passed Coding, Failed on One ML Concept Question

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DoorDashData Scientist
Feb 2026

Three A/B Testing Cases That Exposed My Blind Spot

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MicrosoftData ScientistIntern
Feb 2026

Three Back-to-Back Rounds After the OA

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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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