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Accenture in IndiaSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Accenture in India Software Engineer Interview Experience: compensation did not meet expectations

Most of my interviews were about C# and real-world scenarios, and the interviewers also asked about my previous project experience. I explained what I had built and how I approached the problems I had worked on. After the technical discussion, I had a managerial round that came down to compensation. The salary did not meet my expectation, so I declined. They offered a 5% hike on my current CTC, b…

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ADCI - KarnatakaSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

ADCI - Karnataka Software Engineer Interview Experience: A year of waiting

This was frustrating mostly because it dragged on. The technical and personality parts were not the main problem. I had been interviewing for more than a year and did not feel that anyone kept me updated or consistently looped me in. The sequence was a home technical exam, then a home technical and personality set, followed by a Zoom technical exam. I kept waiting for clarity about timing and wha…

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ADCI - KarnatakaSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

ADCI - Karnataka Software Engineer Interview Experience: DSA, design, and resume probing

My process felt technical and tough. It combined DSA, low-level design, and a resume discussion that went deeper into my background than I expected. They wanted solid fundamentals in trees, graphs, hash maps, and arrays. I felt challenged throughout, instead of in only one hard round, and I came away thinking I needed to be extremely comfortable with those core areas. I was surprised by how much…

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ADCI - KarnatakaSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

ADCI - Karnataka Software Engineer Interview Experience: metrics monitoring design

After the recruiter screen, the rest of my loop took almost a month, which felt longer than I expected. After the initial phone conversation, I had two technical interviews centered on data structures and algorithms. One covered merging overlapping intervals, and the other asked for the minimum number of meeting rooms. The final interview was system design. I had to design a scalable metrics moni…

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Accenture in IndiaSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Accenture in India Software Engineer Interview Experience: Paper SQL assessment

I interviewed in Malaysia for a .NET role, but the day did not fully match that expectation. The technical assessment focused on SQL and stored procedure style work, and I wrote part of it on paper. There were also scenario questions that seemed intended to map directly to real-world tasks. The assessment itself felt fairly normal, but I received no update afterward and no formal rejection. I did…

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TrueFoundrySoftware EngineerSenior+
Aug 2026

VersionedArray, Interview-Scheduling APIs, and a Behavioral Round with the Chief

Round 1 Given a sequence of words written using a scrambled alphabet, determine whether the strings are sorted in ascending lexicographic order. The input is a string array (e.g. cat, bat, tab) plus a sorted char array giving the alphabet order (e.g. C, B, A, T). Return true or false. Design a VersionedArray class that implements the following interface: Init: pass in a length to initialize the a…

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J.P. MorganSoftware Engineer
Aug 2026

Text-Note LRU Coding and an Interviewer Who Just Hung Up

I've been job hunting recently, and an HR person from my old company reached out to me and set up an interview. It started with 2 rounds, BQ + coding. I didn't really want to go back to a former employer, but I figured I'd use it as practice, so I took it. Overall the experience was the same familiar flavor — mainly just terrible. The first round was BQ with an interviewer who'd been there a good…

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AirbnbData Scientist
Aug 2026

HM Screen Where the Role Didn't Match the JD

The HM started off by introducing what the team does, saying this team works on analytics-related stuff. He also mentioned there are two other data-related teams besides this one: the data science team and the modeling team. According to the HM, when the analytics team has work that needs research or a deep dive, it gets handed off to the data science team. I'm not totally clear on how Airbnb div…

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LinkedInDevOps EngineerSenior+
Aug 2026

Downleveled from Senior Staff, Four Rounds, Then Silence

Back in February or March I applied for a senior staff role at LinkedIn, something pretty close to what I'm doing now. The first round was behavioral, and I've always felt I hadn't quite prepared it right — I leaned too hard on execution. I interviewed at Stripe recently too and got the same feedback. In the end they told me they wanted to downlevel me to staff. LinkedIn's senior staff, on levels…

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eBaySoftware Engineer
Aug 2026

AI-Coding Phone Screen, Rejected After Onsite Coding Round

In June, an HR person reached out about an MTS role, and we talked through some behavioral questions and my project experience. Phone screen: AI coding — basically they give you some code and have you spot design pattern issues (like something not being extensible), or point out a bad data type. On CodeSignal, the AI is really strong and basically does the work for you. You just need to talk thro…

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OpenAISoftware EngineerSenior+
Aug 2026

Plant-Infection Coding Round Plus an In-Depth Management Interview

A friend referred me to a tech + management role that required both domain knowledge and management experience. It was a 60-minute coding round, and the question was the pretty common plant-infection problem. I wrote up three parts of it and ran out of time, and only touched on the fourth part without really finishing it. The interviewer was very quiet, almost no back-and-forth. One thing worth f…

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GoogleSoftware Engineer
Aug 2026

Phone Screens Then Three Onsite Rounds Including an AI Agent Rate Limiter

Phone Screen 1: Coding — Car Rental Optimization Given N cars and a set of rental requests, where each request has pickupTime, returnTime, and id, you need to assign cars to these requests to maximize vehicle utilization while using as few cars as possible. The same car can serve multiple requests as long as their times don't overlap. If one request returns the car at time 5 and another picks up…

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NetflixSoftware Engineer
Jul 2026

An Open-Book Coding Screen That Still Ended in Rejection

I interviewed for the Member team — it was basically an open-book style interview, similar to a couple of other phone screen reports I'd seen. Problem Solving: Netflix homepage content dedup — for each row, the first n titles need to be deduplicated globally; after position n+1, you only need to make sure there's no duplicate within that row itself. Follow-ups: 1. what if n is different for each…

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KikoffSoftware Engineer
Jul 2026

A Two-Part Log Parsing and Query Screen Question

Log Parsing, split into two parts. Problem Overview Part 1 You need to build a tool that parses and queries a set of server logs. The input is a list of log lines as strings (List[str]), which get parsed for use by the rest of the tool. Part 1: Parse and Filter Implement a function that reads logs coming from different services and parses them into structured objects. Things to watch out for: The…

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Two SigmaQuantitative Software Engineer
Jul 2026

Order-Matching HackerRank Then a Quant Systems Deep Dive

Round 1: HackerRank Coding — Stock Exchange / Order Matching The task was to implement buy/sell order matching: Buy side uses max priority. Sell side uses min priority. Match orders when the price can cross. Handle partial fills. Output trade records. Handle the remaining resting orders. Follow-ups: How to add more tests to increase confidence. Why my output didn't match the sample. How multiple…

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Hudson River TradingSoftware EngineerNew Grad
Jul 2026

Perfect OA, Then a Rejection After One 30-Minute Coding Round

OA 70 minutes, 4 problems. The first two were super easy. The third one: given an m*n array, you define a diamond by its center point and radius, compute the sum of all the numbers inside the diamond, and return the largest sum among all valid diamonds. The fourth one was street lamps: given a set of lamps, each lamp has a center c and a radius r, so the segment [c-r, c+r] is lit by that lamp. Fi…

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BridgeSoftware Engineer
Jul 2026

Two Coding Rounds, System Design, Then a Reject

I recently interviewed at Bridge, which has since been acquired by Stripe. Sharing my interview experience here. Coding 1: You're given a list of objects, each looking something like: {"key1": 10, "key2": 20} All values are integers. You're given a specific key, plus a requirement of MAX or MIN. You need to find, among the objects in the list that contain this key, the one whose value for that ke…

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DatabricksSoftware EngineerSenior+
Jul 2026

Phone Screen Plus Five Onsite Rounds, Then an Offer

End of June: Phone Screen — Coding: KV Store + Hit Counter Implement a KV Store that also supports tracking averageGet and averagePut. The main focus was on how to maintain a sliding window, and the follow-up extended it to stats over the past 1 hour, 1 day, and 1 week. Early July: Onsite 1 — Coding: File Encryption Tree Optimization Given a file system tree made of DirectoryNode and FileNode, wh…

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AnthropicSoftware Engineer
Jul 2026

Rejected After a Weak System Design Round

Phone screen: a file. Onsite: Coding: image processing. System design: prompt playground. This round was probably my weakest performance — I hadn't crammed on enough interview experiences beforehand, and I hadn't written much down in my own doc. On one or two questions I walked right into the interviewer's trap. Pay attention to some low-level details here — that's also something I hadn't taken v…

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SigmacomputingSoftware Engineer
Jul 2026

Pivot Table Phone Screen, Two of Three Parts Done

The interviewer was very friendly. The question was a pivot table. I had reviewed this problem beforehand, but the input format was different from the one I had prepared for, so at the start I spent a long time confused about how to hook up to this input. The input format from my interview is below. The follow-up was to output running / grand totals on the x axis and the y axis. I ran out of time…

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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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