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3935 interview stories from candidates at 857 companies: how each round went, what was asked and how it ended. Every company page links to practice questions in the same style.
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- 60-Minute Merkle Tree Phone Screen, Finished Everything and Still RejectedCursor · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2026Rejected
Around the start of September I did a 60-minute phone screen with Cursor. After Cursor merged with SpaceX AI it got renamed to SpaceX AI. The problem was writing a Merkle tree. You have to build a Merkle tree to represent a file system, write get_hash, and write diff to compare 2 trees. You have to write all the tests yourself. The logic is the same as a Merkle tree, except a node can have N chil…
- A Merkle Tree Diff Problem Run Inside a Real RepoCursor · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Feb 2026In progress
Just finished the interview, don't know the result yet, but I feel like I answered pretty mediocre. It really was the question that's already posted here — Merkle Tree — but the details still mattered a lot. It runs inside an actual repo, so you have to read files from the repo, which means you need to be familiar with the relevant standard library. The interviewer wanted the folder structure to…
