Technical Screen

A New Rule-Chain Validation Question in the Screen

PlaidSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

Unfortunately I ran into a question that wasn't posted here before. This was a few weeks ago, and the interviewer was a woman. Question: Chain Validation The system has a set of validation rules. Each rule has two fields: [rule name, result] The result can be one of three things: "pass" — the rule passes "fail" — the rule fails the name of another rule — meaning the final result of the current ru…

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