Interview Experiences

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Rocket LabSoftware Engineer
Reported Feb 2026

Rocket Lab Software Engineer interview with a one-hour presentation and site tour

The process began when a recruiter asked about my availability, and the team moved quickly to arrange the next stages. I had a virtual screening with the hiring manager and engineers from the team, followed by an onsite interview by the end of the month, about three weeks after the initial screening. The onsite was long and structured. It included a one-hour presentation, several interview panels…

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Trexquant InvestmentQuantitative Analyst
Reported Feb 2026

Trexquant Investment Quantitative Analyst interview: LeetCode, statistics, and Stamford final round

The process began with a recruiter screen covering my background and previous work. Then I had a technical interview that combined a resume review, a medium LeetCode problem, and statistics questions. Later, I reached an in-person final round at the Stamford site. Those interviews focused on models and techniques connected to the work on my resume. The pace was fast from the beginning, and a lot…

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Trexquant InvestmentQuantitative Analyst
Reported Feb 2026

Trexquant Investment Quantitative Analyst interview with hangman take-home

I started with a coding-focused hangman take-home assignment. It came with performance expectations: clearing a minimum level would earn an invitation to the superday. The assignment included a hangman strategy described as a baseline, along with typical win rates and the expectation that I beat it. After I finished, I had a round focused on my solution and my Python implementation choices, inclu…

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DrwQuantitative Analyst
Reported Feb 2026

Drw Quantitative Analyst interview: options intuition, probability, and a superday

My process started with an online assessment focused mostly on probability. The math felt grounded enough to be solvable, but it was still demanding under the time limit. After that, I had a semi-technical HR conversation, followed by the technical interview phase. The technical portion combined behavioral questions with quantitative problems. I was asked about options pricing and the underlying…

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OuraBackend Engineer
Reported Feb 2026

Oura Backend Engineer interview: CodeSignal timing made the assessment feel unreliable

I started with a CodeSignal assessment that was supposed to be a straightforward skills check, but the timing threw me off. The whole thing moved way too fast. There wasn’t enough time to slow down, understand the problem properly, and implement a solid solution. The question itself wasn’t described as wildly complicated, but the time limit made it hard to demonstrate capability instead of simply…

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RedditMachine Learning Engineer
Feb 2026

Live Coding EDA and CTR Model, Then Ghosted by Recruiting

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Capital OneData Scientist
Feb 2026

The Groupon Case, Advanced Within an Hour

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StripeSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

A Long Request-Routing-System OA

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UberData Scientist
Feb 2026

An In-Place Coding Question and a Deep ETA Case Study

Part 1: Coding Given an integer array, move all zeros in the array to the front while keeping the relative order of all non-zero elements unchanged. Requirement: it must be done in-place. Part 2: Case Study Business scenario: Uber wants to evaluate the business value of lowering ETA (the estimated time for a driver to arrive at the pickup location). What metrics would you look at? From a business…

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CoinbaseMachine Learning Engineer
Feb 2026

Ran Out of Time on the CodeSignal OA

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RipplingSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

Rough System Design Round, Strong Manager Round, Then Rejected

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StripeSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

KYC Verification Coding Round, Rejected Despite Praise for Clean Code

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WaymoMachine Learning Engineer
Jan 2026

Tripped Up by a Google-Style DSA Question

A recruiter reached out to me. Phone screen: DFS, pretty standard. I had the next four rounds on the same day: Round 1: ML fundamentals. Pure conversation, talked about my projects and experience, and he'd find things to ask about along the way. Felt pretty smooth, the guy listened carefully and didn't interrupt randomly, very respectful. Round 2: ML coding. Based on the prep materials they gave…

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UberSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

HackerRank OA Then a Tradeoff-Heavy Phone Screen

I finished the Uber OA and did the phone screen too, so sharing both. The OA was on HackerRank, camera required. First question: a Hard DP problem, a variant of a well-known Jump Game problem where the jump-step rule was changed to a prime-number condition. I got stuck for a bit but eventually worked it out. Second question: Pipeline Throughput, solved with binary search on the answer. You're giv…

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xAISoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

Rejected on a Resumable Iterator Coding Question

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Palo Alto NetworksSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

Sloppy Scheduling, No Lunch, and a Surprisingly Easy Onsite

First, let me vent about the interview experience here — it was very unprofessional. From start to finish I never received a single HR email; it was always unscheduled phone calls, and I never got any prep doc either. Contact was basically one-way. After the HR call in January, almost a month went by with no movement, and I figured it was dead. Then suddenly they reached out to schedule the hirin…

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UberData Scientist
Jan 2026

A Move-Zeroes Coding Question and an ETA Case Study

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Capital OneData Scientist
Jan 2026

HR Call Through a Full Power Day

Round 1: HR Call Asked about "why this company," and otherwise it was just some basic logistics confirmation. Round 2: Data Challenge This was done on CodeSignal — about 4 questions total, using numpy, pandas, sklearn, etc. It was split into a few parts: data cleaning, feature selection, and model building. Finishing the data-processing part within the time limit (90 min) was fairly difficult; yo…

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MetaMachine Learning Engineer
Jan 2026

Onsite Loop With ML System Design, BQ, and an AI-Enabled Coding Round

ML system design: One question was a common one — nearby place recommendation for mobile users who might be on the move. The other one I hadn't seen before — notification ranking. These notifications come from various products, like new product announcements, friends' new updates, and ads served by advertisers, and so on. BQ: Right off the bat they had me talk about my most proud project. Then th…

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NetflixSoftware EngineerSenior+
Jan 2026

Onsite Loop in the Ads Org: Topo Sort, System Design, and Two BQs

I passed this earlier this year, for the Ads department, which has been pretty popular lately. Since I'm planning to accept the offer, I'm not going to post the specific questions — search for the last three months of posts here and you'll find they're almost all the same type. I'll share some experience and feelings that I hope will be useful. Process-wise: they got back to me 1 day after the ph…

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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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