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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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- Technical Phone Screen on an In-Memory Rate LimiterPatreon · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026
The question was the rate limit one. You need to use an in-memory rate limiter to protect an API endpoint. The rate limiter is initialized with a value that represents the maximum number of requests allowed per second. Every time a request hits the API endpoint, it first asks the rate limiter whether there is still capacity to handle the request, and the rate limiter decides based on that whether…
- Easy Phone Screen, HM Chat, Then I Dropped Before the OnsitePatreon · Data Engineer · Other · Mar 2026Withdrew
Posting my full Patreon loop from February, which I never wrote up. A former coworker referred me into the data team. There don't seem to be many Patreon interview write-ups, so I'm contributing one too. Feb 27: 1st round They gave me a big pile of JSON data that looked like users' personal data, with names, addresses, payment methods and so on, and asked me to do some basic data processing. At f…
- A Wordle-Style Coding Screen Nobody Warns You AboutPatreon · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Dec 2025
Not a question from the forum, which surprised me — I'd seen people on the forum say the phone screen here is basically coding rounds, IC/manager rounds, rate limiter, shopping cart, that sort of thing. The problem was roughly a guessing-word game: given a guess word and a target word, mark the status of each position. green: the two chars at this index are the same yellow: the two chars at this…