Interview Experiences

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

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NetflixSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

Two Technical Rounds, Rejected for Not Being 'Clean' Enough

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AtlassianSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

Passed the Rounds but Refused a Downlevel

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xAISoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

A Brutal 45-Minute Exceptional Engineer Coding Screen

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CoinbaseSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

Onsite Coding With No Test Cases, Then HR Ghosted

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RobinhoodStaff Software EngineerSenior+
Jan 2026

Security-Focused Onsite with RBAC/ABAC System Design

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MicrosoftSoftware EngineerSenior+
Jan 2026

Azure Storage L64 Loop, Failed on Storage Internals Depth

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SalesforceLead Member of Technical StaffSenior+
Jan 2026

OA, Coding, Two System Design Rounds, and a Hiring Manager Chat

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CitadelSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

Passed Every Technical Round, Then Stuck in Team-Match Purgatory

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DropboxSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

File Crawler Round Plus an Adversarial Word-Guessing Game

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OpenAIData Scientist
Jan 2026

A Promotion Take-Home, Then a SQL and Python Debugging Round

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DatabricksSoftware EngineerNew Grad
Jan 2026

CIDR Segment Trees and a Brutal SQL Query Optimization Round

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AirbnbSoftware EngineerSenior+
Jan 2026

Full Onsite Loop, Rejected on System Design and Resume Deep-Dive

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Point72AI Engineer
Jan 2026

HackerRank OA, Then a Robotic HM Screen and a Rejection

A recruiter reached out to me first. After the phone screen, they sent a HackerRank OA — three questions total, 90 minutes. The first question was a lot like one I'd seen in another thread, just with the scenario swapped out. The second one was a LeetCode question. The third was a prompt-engineering question with five sub-parts. Basically: you're an Olympic champion's coach and you need to help t…

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Navan
Jan 2026

A Rushed CoderPad OA With No Way to Go Back

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AmazonSoftware EngineerIntern
Jan 2026

Two Back-to-Back Rounds, BQ Plus OOD and a Graph Problem

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LinkedInData Scientist
Jan 2026

Product Sense, SQL, and Python in One Screen

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StubHubSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

No Feedback Policy, But They Asked Me for Feedback

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Capital OneData Analyst
Jan 2026

A Groupon Break-Even Case, Fast-Tracked to the Next Round

I just interviewed for the C1 SBA minicase yesterday, and it was the exact same Groupon case that's been floating around! If you're running a restaurant, you're considering whether to partner with a platform like Groupon. 1) What factors would you consider? 2) Given data: number of tables served per day: 20; avg spend/day: $30; cost: $0.40 per dollar spent; FC: $100/day — what is the daily profit…

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LyftData Scientist
Jan 2026

Fast-Paced Case and Stats Phone Screen, No Offer

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OracleData ScientistIntern
Jan 2026

Two Rounds, a DFS Island Question, and a Research-Only Role

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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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