RejectedOnsite

Rejected After the Onsite Culture Screen

DecagonSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2026

First was a hiring call with Decagon. Then a technical phone screen, which was a shopping cart problem with redo and undo. Next was a system design phone screen, where I had to design security for the Decagon chatbot. The onsite was a culture screen. They asked pretty generic questions like tell me about a project, tell me about a project that went wrong, and how do you use AI. I was rejected imm…

Shared by a candidate · reported Sep 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.