RejectedOnsite

System Design Round Ended Early, Rejected in 9 Minutes

RobinhoodSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Dec 2025

A bit of background: I graduated in 2021 and did four years of C++ SDK dev, mixed in with about two years of building a Python test framework. My company started requiring three days a week back onsite, and the commute was wearing me out, so I started looking for something closer to home. Robinhood's infra work wasn't really a match for my background, but they gave me an interview anyway, and in…

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