Online Assessment

Six OA Questions Buried in Walls of Text

UpstartSoftware Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

Very easy, 6 questions. The biggest challenge was that most of the questions were way too long — it took more than 2 minutes just to read and understand each one, and if you didn't pass on the first try, debugging got really stressful. For example, the first question (8 minute time limit) opened with a long paragraph about someone in medieval times who wrote a manuscript... two minutes later... t…

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