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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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- Patterns from Seventeen ReportsHarvey · Software Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2026
The author summarizes 17 Harvey interview reports from March through September 2026. Technical screens reportedly centered on spreadsheet formulas or text highlighting, with attention to dependency cycles, evaluation timing, and whole-word matching. Onsite coding examples included an in-memory filesystem, expression evaluation, citation highlighting, and duplicate-file discovery with symbolic-lin…
- Phone Screen Building an Excel set_cell/get_cell in Three ScopesHarvey · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2026
Another Excel set_cell and get_cell problem. It starts out really simple and then ramps up step by step, and time was still really tight while writing it. Scope 1 Implement a simple Excel. You need and In step one, set only takes numbers, no formulas, so I'd suggest getting through it fast and not wasting time. Scope 2 Step two adds the ability to set a formula, e.g. set_cell("A1", "=B1+C1+1") or…
- Hiring Manager Screen, Then a Spreadsheet Tech Screen I Didn't FinishHarvey · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026Rejected
I applied online and a recruiter reached out. First round was a hiring manager screen. They asked questions like: tell me about a project I owned in the last year tell me about tough feedback I received tell me about a time I discovered an important problem outside of my immediate focus area Second round was the technical screen. It was similar to the spreadsheet question you can find online, but…
- Three Rounds and a Frustrating Empty OfficeHarvey · AI Agent · Onsite · Aug 2026Rejected
It was a surreal onsite experience. I had practiced the phone-screen problem many times. It was the Google Sheets problem, and I finished it immediately. The recruiter told me about an hour later that I had passed, then arranged the onsite. There were three rounds. For system design, I was asked to design an agent that scores a file according to a set of rules and labels it qualified, acceptable,…
- A File System Question and a Hard-to-Follow InterviewerHarvey · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2025
The file system question from 1point3acres. The writeup is here: a question that hasn't shown up on the forum before, basically a file system where you implement two functions: addFile(String path) — given a string like "path/to/somewhere/file.txt", store this file getFile(String path) — input "path/to/somewhere" returns file.text, input "path/to" returns the "somewhere" folder There wasn't reall…
- A File System Design Screen With a Confusing InterviewerHarvey · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2025In progress
The file system question that's been going around the forum. Here's my report. Similar to a file system — implement two functions: addFile(String path): given a string like "path/to/somewhere/file.txt", store this file. getFile(String path): given "path/to/somewhere", return the content of file.txt; given "path/to", return the folder "somewhere". There wasn't much of a self-introduction, we jumpe…
