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Passed the Screen, Then Lost the Headcount

SquareSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Oct 2025

It seems like at this company the hiring manager only looks at your resume after you pass the phone screen. First I talked with the recruiter, and then right there on that call they said they'd schedule the phone screen — a one-hour coding round. The interviewer didn't waste any time either. After about 5 minutes of introducing ourselves, we went straight into the problem. It was written on Coder…

Shared by a candidate · reported Oct 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.