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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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- Spacex QA Engineer interview: electrical background and mechanical questionsSpacex · QA Engineer · Jun 2026
The call began simply enough, but it quickly became a frustrating mismatch. The questions went beyond a general introduction. I was asked what I knew about Starship, then the conversation moved into technical fundamentals. What bothered me was how my technical background seemed to be treated as irrelevant. The role description and my coursework were in electrical engineering, yet the technical qu…
- Spacex Software Engineer interview: one-hour onsite presentationSpacex · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026
The process moved through several technical touchpoints quickly. I had three phone interviews with different people, then reached an onsite stage that became the center of the evaluation. There, I gave a one-hour presentation on my greatest achievement. It felt fast-moving and evaluative rather than conversational. After the presentation, I was sent home right away, so I never reached the longer…
- Spotify Software Engineer interview with a 75-minute side-project and coding sessionSpotify · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026
After speaking with a recruiter by phone, I moved into one focused interview with a senior software engineer. It lasted about 75 minutes. The format was structured: I introduced a side project, then answered technical questions based on what I'd shared, and finally did live coding in the style of classic LeetCode problems. The pacing felt fairly straightforward, but the interview was still techni…
- Stackadapt Software Engineer case study with unstable evaluation standardsStackadapt · Software Engineer · Take-home Project · Jun 2026
My process started positively, but the final stage was deeply disappointing and left me uneasy about the evaluation standards. I was asked to complete what was presented as a case-study assignment for an enterprise agent solutions developer role. Although it was part of the interview, the work felt close to a real product and architecture project compressed into a short timeline. The most frustra…
- Stackadapt Software Engineer three technical roundsStackadapt · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Jun 2026
After a recruiter reached out and invited me to schedule, the process quickly became a sequence of conversations that felt somewhat shuffled compared with what I had been told. I completed an HR screen, then manager and culture-style interviews, followed by three technical rounds. Each technical round combined live coding with a system design prompt. What caught me off guard was that the intervie…
- Stripe Software Engineer Interview Experience: practical coding, design, and project discussionStripe · Software Engineer · Jun 2026
After a recruiter introduction, I had two long assessment interviews that blended coding and system design. One focused on practical implementation rather than LeetCode, while the other covered system design. The questions felt intended to resemble real engineering work instead of trick puzzles. After I passed that stage, the process became a longer loop. In an integration coding session, I worke…
- Sunnyvale Onsite, No Hire Despite Optimal SolutionsGoogle · Software Engineer · Onsite · Jun 2026Rejected
I got a bad feeling at the onsite from the start, and sure enough, in the end I got a no hire even though I got optimal solutions on both questions plus the follow-ups. The stated reason was lack of communication. I feel like I got screwed, because the whole time I clarified everything first and then talked while I wrote, and the phone screen had explicitly said my communication was outstanding.…
- Super Micro Computer Software Engineer interview experience: full DSA and design loopSuper Micro Computer · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026
The interview felt like a full Amazon-style loop, with several layers of depth in each technical conversation. I began with LeetCode-style coding: two DSA problems, one medium and one hard. For both, I needed an optimal solution, an explanation of my reasoning, time and space complexity analysis, and edge-case handling. The interviewer kept asking about alternative approaches and trade-offs. Then…
- Supermicro Network Engineer interview experience: opaque asynchronous tasksSupermicro · Network Engineer · Jun 2026
My application process was unusual. After I applied, I did online tasks that involved watching videos and answering questions instead of going through a normal back-and-forth interview. At the time, I was not clearly told what that process represented. A few days after I finished, I received an email saying I had been successful, but it did not explain much about what had happened behind the scen…
- Supermicro Software Engineer interview experience: Amazon-style loop and leadership promptsSupermicro · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jun 2026Rejected
After applying, I completed an online assessment and then entered an Amazon-style loop. The day felt like a marathon, with multiple back-to-back rounds and different interviewers. Coding, behavioral questions, and leadership-principles prompts were mixed together. DSA was at the center early on, followed by more engineering-judgment conversations that asked me to connect past work with particular…
- Supermicro Software Engineer interview experience: coding, design, and bar-raiser loopSupermicro · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026
My path followed a formal Amazon-style interview loop after I applied, rather than a quick conversation. It was intense because it combined deep coding, several system-design discussions, object-oriented design, and a bar-raiser focus on leadership principles. The coding questions ranged from medium to hard. I was expected to find an optimal solution, explain my reasoning, cover time and space co…
- Supermicro Software Engineer interview: brain-teaser screeningSupermicro · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jun 2026
The process began with online assessments that did not feel related to the role. The recruitment quizzes leaned on strange puzzle-like brain teasers, and I felt they wasted my time because I was not being hired to solve riddles. After the assessment, the follow-through varied. In one thread, I had a couple of interviews: one structured round and one more conversational interview with normal quest…
- Supermicro Software Engineer interview: LRU cache and evictionSupermicro · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026Offer
A recruiter reached out and scheduled an onsite loop after an initial step. What surprised me was the length of the phone screen. It went deeply into implementation instead of staying at a broad fit level. I was pressed on an LRU cache, including a hashmap with a doubly linked list and a clear explanation of eviction behavior. Because I had practiced system-design-style examples, I felt more comf…
- Susquehanna International Group Quantitative Analyst interview: probability and codingSusquehanna International Group · Quantitative Analyst · Online Assessment · Jun 2026
I had an OA first, then quick interviews combining probability with coding and problem solving. The technical portions did not seem impossibly hard, but they could be tricky. The challenge was staying consistent instead of getting stuck on one question. The follow-up conversations were smooth and interviewer-friendly, with HR reaching out quickly after positive feedback. One interview was casual,…
- Syneos Health/ Inventiv Health Commercial Account Executive interview: quick manager and HR decisionSyneos Health/ Inventiv Health Commercial · Account Executive · HR Screen · Jun 2026Offer
After a quick recruiter outreach, I moved straight to a discussion with the hiring manager and HR. The process was fast and light on formal structure. The interviewers spent a lot of time explaining the company and role, and there were not many deep prompts. I still got the usual "tell me about yourself" focus and questions about my recent work. STAR-style prompts came up, but the tone was not es…
- Synopsys Software Engineer interview experience: technical expectations changed abruptlySynopsys · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Jun 2026
I began with an HR and manager conversation that made me think technical questions might not be part of the process. I went into it more relaxed than I should have. The second round changed tone quickly. They started asking many technical questions, and the depth rose almost immediately. I had not prepared for the particular technical work they expected, and I could not recover as well as I wante…
- Sysco Account Executive interview experience: recorded screen and no follow-upSysco · Account Executive · Jun 2026No response
I started with a short recorded phone interview. About a day later, I moved into the longer main interview. The first call was quick, around fifteen minutes, while the next stage was more involved. The virtual round had two interviewers speaking with me at the same time. Their questions were solid and required real thought, but the conversation flowed well enough that I left feeling I had done a…
- Take-Home Optimization Then Three Onsite Rounds in One DayLangChain · Software Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Jun 2026
First I talked with the recruiter, then they gave me a take-home with one week to finish. The take-home was optimizing a benchmark testing setup — there's a POST endpoint and a GET endpoint, using S3 as the database. The version they hand you originally reads the whole JSON out every time and uses string find to look for the offset. The overall speed of the POST was about 20+ seconds, and the goa…
- Tata Consultancy Services (North America) Business Analyst interview experience: aptitude before HRTata Consultancy Services (North America) · Business Analyst · HR Screen · Jun 2026Offer
I began with an aptitude test, which felt somewhat harder than I had expected. After I cleared it, I moved to an HR interview. That conversation was easier to get through. The sequence was simple: aptitude first and HR second. I attended at the Chennai Sholinganallur office. Leaving the HR stage, I felt relieved because its questions were less intense than the aptitude screen. The conversation ha…
- Tata Consultancy Services (North America) Consultant interview experience: quick project startTata Consultancy Services (North America) · Consultant · Jun 2026Offer
The recruitment process felt smooth and transparent to me. I could follow each step in the TCS Ibegin portal, and HR and the team walked me through the background-verification work. What stood out was that I was never left on the bench for even a day. Everything seemed to keep moving. Project work and code generation started around the day after the project assignment. I found the overall process…
- Tencent Software Engineer interview: three fast rounds and an offer in about 20 daysTencent · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026Offer
After applying online, I went through three quick rounds: a technical interview, a second interview that leaned behavioral for me, and an HR interview. The sequence moved fast enough that I essentially learned where I stood the same day. From application to offer took about 20 days. Each step moved forward without much waiting, and the process felt streamlined compared with other hiring loops I h…
- Teradyne Software Engineer interview experience: project discussions with engineering managerTeradyne · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Jun 2026
The process had several structured rounds that kept returning to my background and projects. It began with an HR call and then moved to conversations about my work experience. In those technical-adjacent discussions, they referred back to my slides, pulled out particular projects, and asked me to explain what I had done and how it related to the role. Meeting the engineering manager was a major p…
- The American Mathematical Society Research Scientist interview experience: PI alignment and lab presentationThe American Mathematical Society · Research Scientist · Technical Screen · Jun 2026Offer
After an initial recruiter-style step, I had an online conversation with the PI about where my work could fit and what the existing project was doing. We discussed research areas we could realistically pursue together. It felt like an alignment conversation rather than a checklist interview. That was followed by a presentation to the lab. I explained my previous and current experience so they cou…
- The City Of Providence Software Engineer interview: silence after the third roundThe City Of Providence · Software Engineer · Onsite · Jun 2026Rejected
My process felt haphazard. I had three rounds: two virtual interviews on Teams and one in-person round at the office. The first two had prompt feedback, so things initially felt organized. After the third, in-person interview, I heard nothing for a long stretch. I eventually got a rejection email, and the silence beforehand was the biggest surprise. Location: Hyderābād. Overall feedback: negative…
- The Lasalle Network Financial Analyst interview experience: fast in-person manager meetingThe Lasalle Network · Financial Analyst · HR Screen · Jun 2026
After I applied through the company portal, I was shortlisted and HR contacted me for an in-person interview. The timing was quick: HR emailed only a day before the face-to-face meeting, so I had to tighten up my story quickly. I started with an HR screening and then had a one-on-one conversation with the manager. The interview ran for about an hour. It was not presented as a deeply technical eva…
- TikTok Data Scientist interview experience: medium SQL and background follow-upsTikTok · Data Scientist · Technical Screen · Jun 2026In progress
After a smooth recruiter interaction, I went directly to a virtual one-on-one technical interview with someone from the hiring team. It was focused: a medium SQL question tested whether I could read and reason through the query, along with general data-science and machine-learning questions. The SQL was not intended as a trick question, but they wanted to see whether I understood what the code wa…
- Total Wine & More Frontend Engineer interview experience: store tour followed by silenceTotal Wine & More · Frontend Engineer · Onsite · Jun 2026No response
I first interviewed with the store manager, and it went very well. A couple of weeks later I met with the district manager, and that conversation also felt positive. Afterward, the district manager had an assistant manager show me around the store. I could see how the work ran day to day, ask questions, and shadow him as he went through his routine. I was there for almost two hours in total. Ever…
- Tower Research Capital Quantitative Analyst interview experience: five rounds across systems and probabilityTower Research Capital · Quantitative Analyst · Technical Screen · Jun 2026
I went through a high-friction process with five rounds that tested breadth as well as depth. The subjects ranged across probability, puzzle-style questions, computer architecture, networks, and operating systems. Most prompts were open ended, with more emphasis on how I reasoned than on one correct answer. The lack of a clear right path was mentally exhausting at times. I had to keep my logic or…
- TSMC Software Engineer one-hour manager interview about role and experienceTSMC · Software Engineer · Jun 2026
The manager was very nice, and the interview matched what I expected for an engineering role. It lasted about an hour and covered role-related topics alongside my previous experience. The straightforward structure made it easier to focus on my background. The questions did not seem designed to be tricky. They were about matching my experience to what the team needed. It felt average in difficulty…
- Two OA Questions, Advanced the Next DayTwo Sigma · Software Engineer · New Grad · Online Assessment · Jun 2026In progress
I applied for Two Sigma's New Grad SWE role. I didn't have much hope going in — not long after a mass application round, I got an OA invite: two problems to solve together in one time-limited session. Before applying I'd heard this company has a lot of rejection stories, so I specifically went and dug through the forum to do my homework. Several posts said the OA questions on the forum were the a…
