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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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- Four Onsite Rounds with Product Execution and a Likes System DesignFaire · Software Engineer · Onsite · Oct 2026
There were 4 rounds in total. Round 1, coding: You are tasked with developing a function to determine the peak bike demand for a bike rental service. The service processes all bookings ahead of time, and your function must calculate the peak number of bikes needed at any point in time to satisfy all bookings. Round 2, product execution. I honestly had no idea how to prepare for this one. The ques…
- ML Infra Onsite Day 1, Data Governance and Inference Platform DesignFaire · Machine Learning Engineer · Onsite · Aug 2026
I interviewed for ML Infra. The first round was Data Reliability & Governance. It was kind of a discussion-based design round. We talked about: availability freshness completeness validity consistency distribution compliance lineage data quality We also talked about the feature store, how to monitor it, and how to do data backfill. The second round was ML Systems Design. I was asked to design a r…
- Onsite Day 2 Coding on Discounts Over a Category DAGFaire · Software Engineer · Onsite · Aug 2026
Coding Part 1 Product categories on an e-commerce platform are hierarchical. The categories are not a strict tree, they form a DAG. That is, a category can belong to several parent categories at the same time. For example: C3_Shirts can belong to both [C2_Mens, C2_Womens] A product inherits: the discount of its own category the discounts of all of its ancestor categories The discount actually app…
