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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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- Six Rounds, Then the Role Went On Hold and Was CancelledeBay · Applied Scientist · Onsite · Sep 2026Rejected
After six rounds of interviews they told me straight up that the position was on hold, and a month later they let me know the position had been cancelled. I suspect the interviewers had known about this for a long time, which is why the interviews were so all over the place and never lined up with anything. The questions I spent ages preparing were basically wasted effort. I'm sharing the questio…
- AI-Coding Phone Screen, Rejected After Onsite Coding RoundeBay · Software Engineer · Onsite · Aug 2026Rejected
In June, an HR person reached out about an MTS role, and we talked through some behavioral questions and my project experience. Phone screen: AI coding — basically they give you some code and have you spot design pattern issues (like something not being extensible), or point out a bad data type. On CodeSignal, the AI is really strong and basically does the work for you. You just need to talk thro…
- An Onsite With No LeetCodeeBay · Software Engineer · Onsite · Aug 2026
This was the most unusual interview I have had so far. There was not a single LeetCode question in the onsite. First round I wrote a shopping cart. There was not much algorithm work, and it felt as though the round was testing how I communicated with the interviewer. Second round I was asked basic questions about data structures and complexity, including very basic topics such as lists, hashes, a…
- Three Onsite Rounds With Two System DesignseBay · Software Engineer · Onsite · Aug 2026
Round 1 Given an array heights, where each element represents the height of a vertical line. Choose two lines to act as the walls of a container. Return the maximum amount of water the container can hold (max area). Given an array of integers temps representing daily temperatures, write a function to calculate, for each day, how many days you'd have to wait until a warmer temperature. The functio…
- Rejected After a Forced-JS Coding ScreeneBay · Software Engineer · Senior+ · Technical Screen · Apr 2026Rejected
The recruiter only mentioned that the interview would cover algorithms and data structures, with no mention of a language requirement at all. Then right at the start of the interview, the interviewer told me I could only use JavaScript or TypeScript. I said I was more comfortable in Python, but I was still made to use JS/TS. This was the first time I've ever been forced into a specific language l…
- Five Onsite Rounds and a CS102 RefreshereBay · Software Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2025
The onsite actually required 5 rounds... my vision went black for a second when I heard that, but since they'd already given me the opportunity, I figured I'd just go ahead and interview. The five rounds included: ML implementation: chatted about my background with the hiring manager, then did a case on how to handle cache update conflicts on the server. Design: yes, you read that right, another…