Figma Interview Experiences

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  Agent Post-training Phone Screens and a Colab PyTorch Pipeline I Could Not FinishFigma · Machine Learning Engineer · Technical Screen · Oct 2026

  Sharing my Figma MLE interview experience (Agent Post-training). A recruiter reached out to me in mid-September. The role is mainly about Agent-related post-training work, and I then scheduled a half-hour recruiter call. One: Recruiter screen (30 mins) The recruiter described the background of the role and what the work involves, then asked about my background and a few common BQs, including: Wal…

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  A Low-Energy Hiring Manager Round Worth AvoidingFigma · Data Scientist · Onsite · Jul 2026

  Sharing my interview experience with Figma DS for the HM round — overall it was really bad. This is the only company where I finished the interview and immediately wanted to warn everyone else away from it. They started by asking about my background and introducing the role. The HM seemed really low energy, like they were just going through the motions. They asked about a project and my work back…

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  Rejected 2 Days After a 5-Round Virtual OnsiteFigma · Software Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2026

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  After the recruiter call, the first round was HM + coding. The VO (final onsite) was 5 rounds — coding + 2 system design rounds + behavioral + a project deep dive. I hadn't seen the AI-flavored system design round anywhere else before. The VO was spread across 3 days, and I got rejected 2 business days after that. The HM round asked about past projects, not much technical. The first coding round…

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  A System Design Interviewer Who Wouldn't Engage or ListenFigma · Software Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2025

  First off, my overall interview experience with Figma was really good — the HR/recruiter was responsive and helpful throughout the whole process, and after the onsite they gave me detailed feedback. Every interviewer I got, except for the one I'm about to go into detail about, was pretty nice. This interviewer had me for the system design round, and the question was the classic "trending articles…