Interview Experiences

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Jane StreetData Scientist
Feb 2025

One Box-Pricing Question That Kept Adding Twists

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WorldQuantQuantitative ResearcherIntern
Feb 2025

Round Two Expected-Value Brainteasers

The whole process has three rounds of interviews. This is round two. Interview content Behavioral Self-introduction How much I know about WorldQuant Walk through my past internship experience What I know about finance and investing Can you talk about your own investing experience? Why did you start investing? What did you learn from investing? Math questions Problem 1: Four boxes There are four b…

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StripeData Engineer
Feb 2025

Three Shipping-Cost Coding Rounds, All Repeats

This company is still tough — the interview pace is tight, very practical, and it's mainly evaluating your coding ability, system design, and culture fit. Let me briefly go over one of my Stripe VO rounds; it was pretty intense. The interviewer opened with a bit of small talk where we introduced ourselves, then he described what he does at Stripe and walked through the overall interview process.…

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CoinbaseData ScientistSenior+
Feb 2025

Passed the Virtual Onsite After SQL, A/B Test Design, and a Business Case Round

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GoogleData Scientist
Feb 2025

Two Rounds, Rejected Three Weeks Later

I got pulled back in and then had two rounds. Interviewed in early January. The first round was coding. Three questions — I don't fully remember all the details. One was something like: you're given a random generator that can produce a uniform sample in (0,1), and you need to write a function that returns a 2-D uniform sample in the square (-1,1) x (-1,1). Treat the random generator as a functio…

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WeRideData ScientistIntern
Feb 2025

OA, Three Rounds, and a Sour TL Round

I applied for the PhD intern position. First I did the OA, which was pure coding. After that HR called, and then they referred me to a team interview — the team I ended up interviewing for was the DS metric team. There were three rounds total. Round 1 was coding, three questions. The first was a SQL question — I forgot what it was. The second was pandas: computing a sliding window average, specif…

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AirtableFull Stack Engineer
Reported Feb 2025

Airtable Full Stack Engineer interview: UI flow and hierarchical data

I went through a longer interview loop that started with an online assessment and then moved quickly to a phone interview. The phone screen used an Airtable-style scenario. That set the tone for the live coding portion, where the questions were meant to feel realistic and the follow-ups focused on explaining my choices, not just producing working code. After that, I had several technical intervie…

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Circle Internet FinancialSoftware Engineer
Reported Feb 2025

Circle Internet Financial Software Engineer interview: six-week wait after an OA

I ran into a long process where timing and recruiter follow-through became the deciding factors. I completed an online technical assessment that took more than an hour, then waited about six weeks before a recruiter reached out. The recruiter mainly focused on why I wanted to work at Circle. After another two weeks, I received a generic rejection email, even though I had scored 100% on the coding…

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Lucid MotorsSoftware Engineer
Reported Feb 2025

Lucid Motors Software Engineer interview with mechanics and vehicle body design questions

Recruiter outreach kicked things off quickly. I got a call to schedule the initial chat, and during that phone conversation, the recruiter explained what would happen next. They promised to follow up shortly after the interview, within about a day or two. The interview with the hiring manager felt fairly normal and even pleasant. We started with a resume review, then talked through my experience.…

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Lucid MotorsSoftware Engineer
Reported Feb 2025

Lucid Motors Software Engineer 4 to 5 hour panel interview

The sequence was straightforward. I started with a screening, then had a hiring manager interview, followed by a panel interview. The panel lasted around 4 to 5 hours, so it was a long day. The questions during the panel felt fair and thought-provoking. The interviewers communicated directly, and the process was well organized. I got the impression that they were testing how I reasoned and how cl…

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StubhubSoftware Engineer
Reported Feb 2025

Stubhub Software Engineer interview: Codility, CodeSignal, and resume-based technical screen

The process moved quickly into online testing and stopped just as fast. I took a Codility-style assessment with a limited time window and submitted everything before time ran out, but I never heard back. At another stage, I completed a CodeSignal assessment with several LeetCode-style questions. The focus was on getting working solutions rather than writing the most elegant algorithms. I ran out…

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BytedanceProduct Manager
Jan 2025

Phone Screen and a Tough Senior PM Case Round

These are some interview questions from memory. If there's a follow-up I'll keep updating this. Phone Screening (~15 minutes) Self-introduction Asked how my experience matched the role Asked about my willingness to relocate Asked about salary My turn to ask questions Business Round 1 - Senior PM (~40 minutes) Self-introduction Asked what I did at Company A Dug deep into the projects I worked on a…

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OptiverQuant Researcher
Jan 2025

Skipped the OA for a Trading Game, Still Rejected

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AppleASIC Design Verification Engineer
Jan 2025

Hardcore Technical From C/C++ to SV/UVM, Almost No Behavioral Questions

Hi everyone! The job search grind is finally over, and I landed the offer I wanted. Along the way I read countless useful posts from people who came before me on this forum, and I learned a lot from them. Today I want to give back and summarize the interview experience and high-frequency topics that I and the friends around me ran into applying for ASIC Design Verification (DV) roles in North Ame…

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WorldQuantQuantitative ResearcherIntern
Jan 2025

Round One, All Behavioral and Math, No Coding

Hiring process There are three rounds of interviews in total. This is round one. Behavioral questions Self-introduction Why WorldQuant? Why do you want to do Quant? Introduce your most relevant project Future plans Vague goals vs. specific goals Math questions First question: the child-birth problem A country has a rule: every family keeps having children until the last child is a boy, then they…

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GoogleData Scientist
Jan 2025

A Streak-Counting Problem, Then Straight Into Behavioral

The technical interview was with an interviewer who showed up a little late. After introducing themselves, they went straight into coding. Count the number of segments in an event sequence that satisfy the "super streak" condition. The conditions: the number of consecutive events of the same type must be >= N, the gap between adjacent events must be <= T, and the total duration must be >= X. Walk…

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DatavantSoftware Engineer
Reported Jan 2025

Datavant Software Engineer interview: CSV debugging and a 2.5-hour virtual onsite

A friendly recruiter started the process and explained each step during the call and in follow-up emails. The interviewers used CoderPad, and I appreciated that the process felt structured and respectful. The 45-minute technical screen focused on debugging. I worked with code that loaded and modified data from a CSV, then worked through failing test cases until they passed. After that, I had a hi…

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Aurora InnovationSoftware Engineer
Reported Jan 2025

Aurora Innovation Software Engineer 60 to 90 minute Python CoderPad

My interview process had five steps in a clear order, so the timeline was easy to follow. It began with an online Python CoderPad homework assignment that took about 60 to 90 minutes. After that, I had a 30-minute hiring manager interview. Next came a short prep call with the recruiter, followed by a two-hour virtual interview. The final step was the offer decision, and it didn't go my way. What…

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UpstartData ScientistSenior+
Dec 2024

A Hardcore Stats Screen With the Hiring Manager

In Q4 2024 a recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn about a staff DS role at their company. After a quick chat we scheduled a one-hour screen with the Hiring Manager (the ML Applications Director). After a short self-introduction we got into the first part. He asked me to walk him through a project at work where I needed to measure impact but couldn't launch an experiment. I gave him the backgro…

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StubhubSoftware EngineerSenior+
Reported Nov 2024

Stubhub Software Engineer interview: six-year requirement for the senior SWE track

I reached out through LinkedIn and eventually connected with the company. The process started normally, but I soon learned that senior-level roles required six or more years of experience. I considered myself a senior engineer, but I didn’t meet the experience requirement for the senior SWE track. Because of that policy, I didn’t move forward and withdrew from the process. The hard cutoff felt ol…

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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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