Interview Experiences

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NetflixMachine Learning Engineer
Jan 2026

ML Infra Onsite With Coding, Stakeholder Chat, and Compute-Allocation Design

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ExpediaSoftware EngineerSenior+
Jan 2026

HR Ghosted for a Month Before the Virtual Onsite

I interviewed for the global payments team. The phone screen was in mid-February, then HR just ghosted me. I emailed to ask about the result and only got a reply five days later. The virtual onsite ended up landing almost a month late. After the self-introduction in every round there was a small Expedia values behavioral question. Round 1 was coding with the interviewer — a LeetCode question. Aft…

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TikTokTest Development Engineer
Jan 2026

32 Questions Covering Python, Data Structures, and a Gold Bar Brain Teaser

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GoogleSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

L4, Four Rounds to Team Match

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MetaSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

Four-Question CodeSignal OA Before Christmas

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AmazonApplied Scientist
Jan 2026

Five Onsite Rounds, Almost Every One With an LP Twist

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

Weighted Random Generator, Then a Statewide Sensor System Design

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MicrosoftApplied ScientistSenior+
Jan 2026

Seven Team Loops and a Comp Fight

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GoogleSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

Four Rounds, Positive Feedback, Now in Team Match

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GoogleMachine Learning Engineer
Jan 2026

Four Onsite Rounds, Then Rejected

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StripeSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

A Compiled Set of Technical Screen Coding Problems

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AmazonPrincipal EngineerSenior+
Jan 2026

a Two-Month Loop and a Bar Raiser With Zero Technical Questions

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CadenceMachine Learning EngineerNew Grad
Jan 2026

A 30-Minute Screen That Turned Into Live DFS Coding

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PinterestSoftware EngineerSenior+
Jan 2026

A Debt-Settlement Variant of LC 465

Position: SR. Software Engineer A one-hour phone screen, and the question was a variant of LC 465 — it felt like it needed the accounting concept of settling balances, and if you hadn't seen something like this before you probably couldn't have gotten it. The problem was roughly this: a group of friends goes on a trip, and you're given a list of transactions. Each one has a payer, an amount, and…

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MetaSoftware EngineerNew Grad
Jan 2026

GPT-5 Now an Option in the AI Coding Round, Failed on a Food Delivery System Design

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MetaMachine Learning Engineer
Jan 2026

Four Onsite Rounds, Downleveled to E4

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CoinbaseFrontend EngineerSenior+
Jan 2026

Four Onsite Rounds, Rejected on System Design

I interviewed in March. I couldn't find a virtual onsite interview writeup for Coinbase Frontend Staff level on the forum. There were four rounds total. The questions themselves weren't that hard, but the bar was high. Tech Execution: Write a dropdown component. I'd suggest looking at a UI library's props beforehand, something like Ant Design. In this round you need to pay attention to reusable d…

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AtlassianSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

Passed a Coding Round I'd Seen Before, Then Walked Away

I was contacted on LinkedIn. At the time I was already interviewing with several other companies at once, but I replied anyway to give it a shot. I passed the phone screen, then scheduled the onsite (VO) with the recruiter. Their onsite can be split across several days — day one is coding. If you fail the coding round, they don't move you on to system design. The first coding round was actually a…

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InstacartSoftware Engineer II
Jan 2026

Four-Question OA With a Tricky Shape-Placement Puzzle

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OracleData ScientistIntern
Jan 2026

Two Rounds and a Research-Only Role That Gave Me Pause

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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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