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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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- Full Onsite Loop with a Claude-Assisted Coding RoundScale AI · Backend Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2026
I mass-applied for an infra role that sits under the ML research org. The interview process matched what other people have already posted here on the forum. Onsite loop: Task scheduler VO BQ: Standard questions, and it ended early. The highlight was during the time to ask questions back — I asked the interviewer if there was anything she didn't like about Scale AI, and she said that because of RT…
- Debug a Real Codebase, Then an LLM API RoundScale AI · Software Engineer · Onsite · Mar 2026
Phone Screen It was the "party" question that's already been posted on the forum, pretty easy. Debug This round felt a bit harder. The question was the "assign project" one that's already on the forum, and the main issue was that time was tight. It's a new codebase with several files, and you need to go back and forth through it a lot (would've been a lot easier if I could've just used AI for thi…
- Impatient Interviewer, Essay-Length QuestionScale AI · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2025Rejected
I'd looked at this company before and thought about applying, but I never really believed I'd pass an interview here, so I went in with a "just try it" mindset. The whole interview was really contradictory. You'd think a technical interview would be short and to the point, but the interviewer was very impatient the whole way through. He gave only a very brief, shallow rundown of himself and what…
