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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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- Nutanix Account Executive interview: clear recruiter, manager and country-manager processNutanix · Account Executive · HR Screen · Jul 2026Withdrew
I started with a recruiter interview that felt professional and easy to talk through. The recruiter explained what they would focus on and encouraged me to understand the company background so I could speak about it in context. The process then continued with the hiring manager and a higher country-level manager, with prompt updates and feedback. The format was clear, so I did not spend time wond…
- Nutanix Account Executive interview: recruiter-led offer discussionNutanix · Account Executive · Other · Jul 2026Offer
I started with a clear, professional exploratory call with a recruiter. Soon after, I spoke with the sales manager who would have been my direct boss and then the country leader. The recruiter followed up to say the process had been positive and discussed what an offer and the next steps would likely look like. That follow-through made the direction of the process much clearer. Leadership was inv…
- Nutanix Software Engineer interview experience: graph states and C++ debuggingNutanix · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026Offer
I had a compact two-round process that was intense but fair. The first round lasted roughly 35 minutes and combined problem solving with debugging. I worked on a graph prompt that began simply and gained constraints and state transitions, so choosing the right state representation and keeping the solution efficient mattered. That round also included debugging a multi-page C++ linked-list program,…
- NVIDIA Embedded Engineer interview: bit manipulation and register operationsNVIDIA · Embedded Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026
I interviewed at the Yokneam site with a team leader and another employee. They began by explaining the company and role, then asked me to introduce myself and walk through a university project. I needed to explain in real detail how it was implemented and why I had made particular design choices. The technical section then became very hardware and low level. I got a bit-manipulation question, fo…
- NVIDIA Embedded Engineer interview: firmware protocol system designNVIDIA · Embedded Engineer · Jul 2026
My process started with an OA that immediately felt demanding. It covered LeetCode-style questions from easy through medium, plus C++ data-structure properties. After the OA, I had a technical interview with a team member. The difficult part was a firmware system-design-style problem framed around a firmware protocol, with computer-networking concepts as well. The scope felt broad, not purely alg…
- NVIDIA Embedded Engineer interview: two-hour C coding screenNVIDIA · Embedded Engineer · HR Screen · Jul 2026
HR called to coordinate a time, then I joined a two-hour technical interview. I did not make it past that first interview, which was disappointing, although the format was straightforward. They began by talking about the role and company, then asked for a self-introduction. I discussed a project I had worked on and answered several questions about it before the conversation shifted to coding. The…
- NVIDIA QA Engineer interview: HackerRank and pending onsiteNVIDIA · QA Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026In progress
I applied for a QA Automation Student position and began with an online HackerRank assessment. It included Python programming and technical questions. After I completed the assessment, a recruiter contacted me and invited me to continue with an onsite technical interview. When I last checked, the process was still ongoing, so I did not have a final result. What stood out was how quickly the recru…
- NVIDIA QA Engineer interview: project walkthrough, DSA, and a long timelineNVIDIA · QA Engineer · HR Screen · Jul 2026In progress
After an initial recruiter step, I moved toward an on-site technical interview. First came a difficult DSA-focused round. Then, in a virtual interview, I had to explain a project line by line from a random starting point and also solve DSA-style problems. I later had an HR conversation. The process seemed designed to pressure-test my understanding from what I had written through coding. By the on…
- NVIDIA QA Engineer interview: unique-word Python scriptNVIDIA · QA Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026
I received a concrete Python task: write a script that took an input string containing duplicate words, kept only the unique words, and returned one space-separated string sorted in descending order. The question was narrowly scoped, so I could focus on correctness and the details. It made the evaluation straightforward. Rather than asking me to discuss several concepts at once, the interview che…
- NVIDIA Software Engineer Interview Experience: A two-month process with a home exam and C/C++ day interviewNVIDIA · Software Engineer · Take-home Project · Jul 2026Rejected
My process lasted roughly two months, with a lot of waiting between steps. I did not make it through, but I could see the overall shape of how they evaluated me. The sequence was simple: a home exam, a day interview, and then a manager interview. The home exam and day interview were the technical evaluation. The day interview included a C/C++ question, and the difficulty ranged from difficult to…
- NVIDIA Software Engineer interview with a 45-minute resume discussion and coin riddleNVIDIA · Software Engineer · Jul 2026
I started with a short, focused first round that spent about 45 minutes on the details in my resume. The expectation was that I could explain my background confidently before the technical deep dive. Then the conversation shifted to core computer-science topics, and I had to use a whiteboard to show my reasoning. I got a practical DSA question and a brainteaser-style riddle. The riddle was easy t…
- NVIDIA Software Engineer interview: practical problems and delayed rejectionNVIDIA · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026Rejected
After an online assessment, I had interactive technical interviews where I was expected to explain my approach, not only reach an answer. One session began with a review of my resume projects and a couple of behavioral questions, then moved to a problem that felt like a realistic day-to-day task for the role. The interviewers were generally straightforward, and I appreciated their focus on fit ra…
- NVIDIA Solutions Architect interview: EVPN shifted to DevOpsNVIDIA · Solutions Architect · Technical Screen · Jul 2026
The NVIDIA interview opened with EVPN questions, which I answered confidently. It then shifted almost entirely to DevOps, a direction I did not expect for a Solutions Architect position. Nothing in the rest of the conversation connected to my AI or HPC background. By the end of the call, I felt that much of the questioning did not match the advertised role. I did not receive an offer. My main tak…
- OA with a Delivery-Cost, Truck-Collision, and Org-Tree Broadcast ProblemUber · Software Engineer · Intern · Online Assessment · Jul 2026
OA Problem 1 There are n cities, each with a deliveryCharge value. Delivering from city i to city j can be costed in two ways: The cost is abs(deliveryCharge[i] - deliveryCharge[j]) If city j is city i's unique nearest city, the cost is 1 The distance between cities is defined as abs(deliveryCharge[i] - deliveryCharge[j]). Given a queries array where each entry is [Start, End], compute the minimu…
- Odoo Account Executive interview: delays after recruiter and final roundsOdoo · Account Executive · HR Screen · Jul 2026No response
The hardest part was the waiting, not the first interview. I started with a recruiter conversation about my account-management background and was told I would hear back by the end of the week. The week passed, and my follow-ups brought no useful response. The same frustration appeared at the final stage. Even after a last interview and a promise of a timely decision, I waited for weeks. When a re…
- Odoo Account Executive interview: product demo and pressured role-playOdoo · Account Executive · Other · Jul 2026
The interview opened with a group product demo in a random group. It quickly became a pitch challenge: I had to invent a business idea and sell it as if I were on stage. After my individual presentation, I was questioned right away about whether I could handle rejection pressure and keep a pitch organized under scrutiny. It then shifted into role-play. I received a short instruction sheet just be…
- Odoo Business Analyst interview: software workflow exercises and a hiring pauseOdoo · Business Analyst · HR Screen · Jul 2026
I had three structured rounds: a behavioral HR screen, a stage where I had to learn the company software, and a final stage where I showed those skills through different parts of the UI. The breakdown made me feel they were assessing both my thinking and whether I could follow their product workflow. The process moved from a recruiter call to a video call and then an onsite final interview. In th…
- Odoo Full Stack Engineer interview: HTML validator and delayed decisionOdoo · Full Stack Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026Rejected
The process began with an HTML-tags validator. The task was simple in concept: decide whether an HTML snippet was valid, knowing that one incorrect tag or invalid structure would make it fail. After that I had two short, friendly HR interviews with different people. We talked about my interest and experience, my motivation for coding, and what I liked doing day to day. The conversations were rela…
- Okta Software Engineer interview: smooth recruiter screen and abrupt rejectionOkta · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Jul 2026Rejected
The recruiter screening felt as though it was going fairly well, but I received an automated rejection shortly afterward with almost no detail. The questions I remember were basic: tell me about yourself, why I wanted to work there, and why I was considering other roles. The process ended so quickly that I did not feel there had been much evaluation beyond that first conversation. Since the scree…
- Onsite AI Coding Round with Live PromptingRippling · Software Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2026
Recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn. They scheduled a phone screen first — system design, on a news aggregation system. The interviewer was very nice. A week later they told me I'd passed. Then they scheduled a chat with the hiring manager about my project. A week later they told me I'd passed that one too. Onsite was two days, three rounds. System design: they asked me to design a hotel syst…
- Onsite Design Round Interrupted Nonstop by a Confused InterviewerCitadel · Software Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2026
I just finished interviewing for Citadel Securities' C++ SWE position, and the whole experience was very negative, so I'm posting here to vent. The phone screen was an external merge sort with a heap. The interviewer was decent, and the overall experience was fine. After that, they quickly scheduled the onsite and told me there'd be five rounds total: design + 2h coding + 1h code review + 1h proj…
- Onsite System Design for a Product Inventory ServiceMoody's · Software Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2026
System Design Design a Product Inventory & Pricing Service for an e-commerce platform Functional requirements: get product details, update product price, update inventory when a user places an order. System requirements: this is a read-heavy system, so we needed to discuss the Consistency vs Availability tradeoff, plus authorization for inventory updates. Technical approach discussion: SQL vs NoS…
- Onsite With a Dice Probability Question and a KV StoreLiftoff · Machine Learning Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2026Rejected
Sigh, I felt like I did okay, but it still ended in tragedy. Thanks to the forum for the help, even though most of these questions were already in the earlier posts. The other rounds were pretty much the same as what is already posted. I did not see details on the statistics and probability questions, or on the KV store question, so let me add them. One question: you roll a 6-sided die 1000 times…
- Onsite with a Rate Limiter, an Airbnb Design Question, and an AI-Assisted Debugging RoundHeadway · Software Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2026
Coding The problem: implement a Fixed Window Rate Limiter. Implement a rate limiter middleware for a web service built on FastAPI and Uvicorn. Every request has to satisfy both of these at the same time: Global limit: at most 100 requests per minute Domain limit: at most 3 requests per second per domain If either limit gets triggered, the request should be rejected. They wanted the fixed-window v…
- OpenAI Software Engineer interview: machine counting and rate-limit designOpenAI · Software Engineer · Jul 2026Offer
I started with a phone screen about my background and a basic data structures problem. From there, the interviews ramped up quickly. The process felt intense and focused on whether I could handle real engineering problem solving under pressure. The technical rounds included a complex challenge around counting machines and a system design question about rate limiting. I had already practiced rate-…
- OpenAI Software Engineer interview: two days of coding interviewsOpenAI · Software Engineer · Jul 2026
The process was straightforward and fast-paced. I had two days of back-to-back interviews, mostly coding problems, plus a hiring-manager interview. It felt practical, more about showing I could solve problems than getting lost in theory. The topics matched standard preparation: LeetCode-style practice covered the coding well, and I also prepared for the behavioral round. The turnaround after the…
- OpenText Software Engineer interview: campus online assessmentOpenText · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026Rejected
My first step was a timed online assessment. It started with multiple-choice questions and then moved into DSA coding. There were a couple of coding problems, including one like Longest Common Prefix, and the overall difficulty felt manageable. In my version, there were 15 multiple-choice questions and two DSA coding questions in a short window. It was part of campus recruitment, so it felt like…
- OpenText Solutions Engineer interview: practical design discussionsOpenText · Solutions Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026
After a recruiter conversation, I went through a comfortable set of interviews. The team felt friendly and professional rather than rigid. Technical questions stayed close to my experience and the design decisions I had actually made. There was a system-design discussion, a coding component, and some low-level design questions. Even as the topics broadened, the tone stayed conversational. The man…
- OPTIMUS IT SERVICES Software Engineer interview: campus OA error and DSA-heavy selectionOPTIMUS IT SERVICES · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026
I joined a campus drive where everyone who registered reported together to the Noida office. The day began with an OA for about 100 students: 20 aptitude questions and 2 DSA questions. The OA felt rough immediately because my submission hit an error on their side and I had to take it again. Even after that, selection seemed to rest much more on the DSA section than I expected. The mismatch betwee…
- Optum Software Engineer interview: walk-in technical rounds and reversed selection messageOptum · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026Rejected
I attended a walk-in drive with two technical interviews, each roughly 1 to 1.5 hours. Both sessions went well, and the content felt solid. The frustrating part was the communication afterward. An HR representative told me I had been selected and that the hiring HR would contact me with next steps. Soon after I started going home, the same person called back to say my profile had been put on hold…
