RejectedOnsite

Positive Feedback, Rejected for Background Mismatch

PlaidSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Feb 2026

All the interviewers seemed pretty nice, but my impression was that they weren't that technically strong — didn't come across as too sharp. Phone screen: a coupon question and a new question I don't remember too well. They gave you a JSON mapping a bunch of routing numbers to bank names and had you process it — I forget exactly what the task was, but basically you just used various hashmaps to ch…

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