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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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- Open-Ended System Design That Ran Fifteen Minutes OverGeneral Motors · Software Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2026
The interview was scheduled for 45 minutes. The interviewer gave me a question that was roughly: there is an application that has to call three to five dependency services, and how do you guarantee a specific target for a specific service, for example access latency under 10 seconds and availability above 99%. It didn't feel like a normal design round. It felt like a very open-ended discussion ab…
- Hiring Manager Chat Turned Technical, Then a Codility REST API Phone ScreenGeneral Motors · Software Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Aug 2026
Earlier I had a call with the hiring manager. I expected the whole thing to be behavioral, but surprisingly it was almost entirely about technical decisions — things like how you'd go from a monolith to microservices, the tradeoffs between the two, and then how you'd go from microservices to a more modular architecture, and how to make those calls. About a week after that call, a recruiter reache…