Interview Experiences & Prep Guides

Real interview experiences, coding interview questions, and preparation guides from candidates at top technology companies.

• Microsoft SWE Interview Experience (2024): Trees / Arrays / Linked Lists

  Microsoft SWE report (2024): system design; trees and hierarchical data, and arrays and sequence processing; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 05 17.

• Google SWE Interview Experience (2025): Sliding-Window Processing / Url Shortener Design

  Google SWE report (2025): screening interview; sliding window processing, and URL shortener design; outcome not stated. Logged 2026 06 21.

• Google SWE Interview Experience (2026): Dynamic-Programming Optimization

  Google SWE report (2026): screening interview, system design, and behavioral; dynamic programming optimization; outcome not stated. Logged 2026 03 10.

• Google SWE Intern Interview Experience (2024): Topological Sorting / Course Scheduling

  Google SWE Intern report (2024): technical interview; topological sorting, and course scheduling; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 04 24.

• Google SWE Intern Interview Experience (2024): Prefix-Sum Queries

  Google SWE Intern report (2024): behavioral; prefix sum queries, and dynamic programming optimization; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 06 28.

• Uber SDE II Interview Experience (2024): Dynamic-Programming Optimization

  Uber SDE II report (2024): screening interview; dynamic programming optimization; no offer reported. Logged 2024 11 13.

• NVIDIA SWE Interview Experience (2024): Dynamic-Programming Optimization

  NVIDIA SWE report (2024): technical coding; dynamic programming optimization; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 12 21.

• Microsoft SWE Intern Interview Experience (2024): Operating-System Fundamentals

  Microsoft SWE Intern report (2024): online assessment; operating system fundamentals; no offer reported. Logged 2024 05 08.

• Microsoft SWE Interview Experience (2024): Binary-Tree Traversal

  Microsoft SWE report (2024): system design, and behavioral; binary tree traversal; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 05 08.

• Google SWE Interview Experience (2026): Merge Intervals

  Google SWE report (2026): technical coding, and behavioral; merge intervals; outcome not stated. Logged 2025 12 27.

• Microsoft SWE Interview Experience (2025): Rotting Oranges / Rate Limiter Design

  Microsoft SWE report (2025): online assessment; rotting oranges, and rate limiter design; outcome not stated. Logged 2025 10 22.

• Microsoft SWE Intern Interview Experience (2024): Merge Intervals

  Microsoft SWE Intern report (2024): online assessment; merge intervals, and dynamic programming optimization; offer reported. Logged 2023 10 26.

• Microsoft SDE II Interview Experience (2025): Sliding-Window Processing / Rate Limiter Design

  Microsoft SDE II report (2025): online assessment; sliding window processing, and rate limiter design; offer reported. Logged 2025 10 29.

• Microsoft SDE II Interview Experience (2024): Graphs / Trees / OOD

  Microsoft SDE II report (2024): online assessment; graph traversal, and trees and hierarchical data; offer reported. Logged 2024 07 28.

• Microsoft SDE II Interview Experience (2024): Graphs / Arrays / OOD

  Microsoft SDE II report (2024): online assessment; graph traversal, and arrays and sequence processing; offer reported. Logged 2024 06 01.

• Microsoft SWE Intern Interview Experience (2024): Dynamic-Programming Optimization

  Microsoft SWE Intern report (2024): online assessment; dynamic programming optimization; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 04 18.

• Amazon SDE I Interview Experience (2026): Number Of Islands / Topological Sorting

  Amazon SDE I report (2026): online assessment; number of islands, and topological sorting; offer reported. Logged 2026 05 09.

• Uber SDE II Interview Experience (2024): Dynamic-Programming Optimization — Nov 29

  Uber SDE II report (2024): technical coding, system design, and hiring manager; dynamic programming optimization; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 11 29.

• Google SWE Interview Experience (2024): Shortest-Path Search / Dynamic-Programming Optimization

  Google SWE report (2024): online assessment; shortest path search, and dynamic programming optimization; offer reported. Logged 2024 08 03.

• Google SWE Intern Interview Experience (2024): Graphs / Trees / OS

  Google SWE Intern report (2024): screening interview; graph traversal, and trees and hierarchical data; offer reported. Logged 2026 02 15.

• Google SWE Interview Experience (2024): Shortest-Path Search / Topological Sorting

  Google SWE report (2024): technical coding; shortest path search, and topological sorting; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 05 04.

• Google SDE II Interview Experience (2025): Two Sum / Lowest Common Ancestor

  Google SDE II report (2025): screening interview, system design, and behavioral; two sum, and lowest common ancestor; offer reported. Logged 2026 02 20.

• Amazon SWE Interview Experience (2024): Largest Connected Component In A Binary Matrix

  Amazon SWE report (2024): screening interview; largest connected component in a binary matrix, and trailing zeros in a factorial; outcome not stated.…

• Amazon SDE II Interview Experience (2024): Lru Cache / Binary-Tree Traversal

  Amazon SDE II report (2024): screening interview; LRU cache, and binary tree traversal; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 05 27.

• Amazon SWE Interview Experience (2024): Lru Cache / Binary-Tree Traversal

  Amazon SWE report (2024): screening interview; LRU cache, and binary tree traversal; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 02 17.

• Amazon SDE I Interview Experience (2026): Dynamic-Programming Optimization

  Amazon SDE I report (2026): online assessment; dynamic programming optimization; no offer reported. Logged 2026 03 11.

• Amazon SDE II Interview Experience (2026): OOD / System Design / OS

  Amazon SDE II report (2026): online assessment; object oriented design, and system design and scalability; offer reported. Logged 2026 02 05.

• Amazon SDE I Interview Experience (2025): Graphs / Arrays / OS

  Amazon SDE I report (2025): online assessment; graph traversal, and arrays and sequence processing; outcome not stated. Logged 2025 12 25.

• Uber SDE II Interview Experience (2025): Rotting Oranges

  Uber SDE II report (2025): system design; rotting oranges; outcome not stated. Logged 2025 02 13.

• Google SWE Interview Experience (2024): Dynamic-Programming Optimization

  Google SWE report (2024): screening interview, technical coding, and behavioral; dynamic programming optimization; offer reported. Logged 2024 05 19.

• Google SWE Interview Experience (2024): Dynamic-Programming Optimization — May 7

  Google SWE report (2024): technical interview; dynamic programming optimization; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 05 07.

• Google SWE Intern Interview Experience (2024): Graphs / Trees / System Design

  Google SWE Intern report (2024): screening interview; graph traversal, and trees and hierarchical data; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 03 16.

• Google SDE I Interview Experience (2024): Dynamic-Programming Optimization

  Google SDE I report (2024): screening interview, technical coding, and behavioral; dynamic programming optimization; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 04 07.

• Uber SWE Interview Experience (2024): Dynamic-Programming Optimization / Parking-Lot Design

  Uber SWE report (2024): online assessment; dynamic programming optimization, and parking lot design; outcome not stated. Logged 2025 12 05.

• NVIDIA SWE Intern Interview Experience (2024): Dynamic-Programming Optimization

  NVIDIA SWE Intern report (2024): online assessment, and technical coding; dynamic programming optimization; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 03 06.

• NVIDIA SWE Interview Experience (2024): Dynamic-Programming Optimization — Aug 24

  NVIDIA SWE report (2024): technical coding, and hiring manager; dynamic programming optimization; offer reported. Logged 2024 08 24.

• Uber SWE Interview Experience (2024): Dynamic-Programming Optimization / Url Shortener Design

  Uber SWE report (2024): technical coding; dynamic programming optimization, and URL shortener design; offer reported. Logged 2024 05 01.

• Microsoft SWE Interview Experience (2024): Linked-List Reversal

  Microsoft SWE report (2024): technical coding, system design, low level design, and hiring manager; linked list reversal; offer reported. Logged 2024 03 31.

• NVIDIA SWE Intern Interview Experience (2024): Topological Sorting / C++ Memory Management

  NVIDIA SWE Intern report (2024): online assessment; topological sorting, and C++ memory management; offer reported. Logged 2024 12 20.

• Amazon SDE I Interview Experience (2026): Trees / Strings / OS

  Amazon SDE I report (2026): online assessment, and behavioral; trees and hierarchical data, and string processing; no offer reported. Logged 2026 07 07.

• NVIDIA SWE Interview Experience (2024): Arrays / Strings / Heaps

  NVIDIA SWE report (2024): technical coding; arrays and sequence processing, and string processing; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 03 02.

• Microsoft SWE Interview Experience (2025): Palindrome Checking

  Microsoft SWE report (2025): online assessment, low level design, and hiring manager; palindrome checking; offer reported. Logged 2025 10 11.

• NVIDIA SWE Interview Experience (2026): Cuda And Gpu Programming / Operating-System Fundamentals

  NVIDIA SWE report (2026): online assessment; CUDA and GPU programming, and operating system fundamentals; outcome not stated. Logged 2026 06 26.

• NVIDIA SWE Interview Experience (2026): C++ Memory Management / Cuda And Gpu Programming

  NVIDIA SWE report (2026): system design, and behavioral; C++ memory management, and CUDA and GPU programming; outcome not stated. Logged 2026 04 20.

• Uber Data Scientist Interview Experience (2024): Trees / OS / ML

  Uber Data Scientist report (2024): online assessment; trees and hierarchical data, and operating system fundamentals; outcome not stated. Logged 2024 05 22.

• Uber SDE I Interview Experience (2026): Shortest-Path Search / Parking-Lot Design

  Uber SDE I report (2026): online assessment; shortest path search, and parking lot design; no offer reported. Logged 2026 02 19.

• Uber SDE II Interview Experience (2026): Lru Cache / Number Of Islands

  Uber SDE II report (2026): screening interview; LRU cache, and number of islands; no offer reported. Logged 2026 02 04.

• Uber SWE Intern Interview Experience (2024): Sliding-Window Processing

  Uber SWE Intern report (2024): technical coding, low level design, and behavioral; sliding window processing; no offer reported. Logged 2024 05 31.

• Amazon New Grad SDE Interview Experience (2026) - Coding, GenAI & Bar Raiser

  A four round Amazon new grad loop with binary search, prefix sums, tree coding, process scheduling, practical GenAI judgment, and Leadership Principles.

• Qualcomm Nuvia Silicon Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - CPU, PPA, Offer

  An experienced SoC engineer's move into Qualcomm's Nuvia CPU implementation team through open ended architecture, microarchitecture, and PPA interviews.

• Purplle SDE Internship Interview Experience (2026) - AI Retail Challenge to Offer

  An off campus SDE internship process built around an AI retail intelligence project, two architecture heavy technical interviews, and a final offer.

• Microsoft L62 Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Coding, LLD & HLD, Offer

  A four round Microsoft L62 loop featuring an expression evaluator, library low level design, e commerce system design, and a managerial round.

• Ambient Security Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Debugging Loop, Offer

  A four stage software engineering process centered on AI screening, live repository debugging, concurrency, backward compatibility, and adaptability.

• Amazon SDE Internship Interview Experience (2026) - Two Coding Rounds, Offer

  A successful Amazon SDE internship process with a hiring manager round, three medium to hard coding problems, and detailed project follow ups.

• Atlassian Backend Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - System Design, Offer

  A six week Atlassian backend loop covering BFS, resume architecture, a Jira system design exercise, multitenancy, and behavioral interviews.

• Roblox OA Experience (2026) - Coding, Factory Simulation & Decision Making, Passed

  A Roblox online assessment report covering coding, gamified resource allocation, workplace decisions, time management, and an all pass result.

• Amazon SDE-1 Interview Experience (2026) - Coding, GenAI & Bar Raiser, Rejected

  A four round Amazon SDE 1 loop covering multi source BFS, graph and DP problems, practical GenAI judgment, Leadership Principles, and a difficult Bar Raiser.

• Susov Consulting Frontend Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - JavaScript, React, Rejected

  Two frontend rounds covering JavaScript fundamentals, recursive array flattening, large list rendering, and a timed TypeScript data table assignment.

• Yuno Backend Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Go, AWS, Rejected

  A three round backend process covering API aggregation, Go concurrency, ACID, SOLID, Docker, AWS deployment strategies, and live coding.

• TikTok Data Science Intern Interview Experience (2026) - SQL, Experimentation, Offer

  Two TikTok data science internship rounds covering product metrics, Spark, SQL, statistics, A/B testing, and creator engagement analysis.

• Capital One Business Analyst Interview Experience (2026) - Pet Credit Card Profitability & DAU Drop Diagnosis, Offer

  Capital One BA Power Day: pet owner credit card profitability case with CAC and LTV reasoning, iOS only DAU drop diagnosis, behavioral storytelling, and a first 90 days HM conversa

• Snowflake New Grad OA Interview Experience (2026) - Sort-Split Count, Flip-One Abs Sum & Parenthesis DP, Offer

  Snowflake 2026 New Grad HackerRank OA: three problems in 120 minutes covering prefix max/suffix min split counting, single flip absolute sum minimization, and DP on balance parenth

• Coinbase Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Chain Integrity OA & Matching Engine, Offer

  Coinbase SWE loop: CodeSignal chain integrity and double spend detection OA, wallet repo extension, matching engine design, mission grounded values round, offer.

• Bloomberg Software Engineer VO Interview Experience (2026) - First Unique Word, TV Retention, Tesla Equity OOD, Offer

  Bloomberg 2026 SWE VO loop: phone screen with First Unique Word and Count Vowel Substrings, VO1 TV show retention, VO2 Tesla equity O(1) OOD with median follow up, system design To

• Canva Software Engineer OA Experience (2026) - Beach Cleanup, Friend Recommendation, Max Strength Swaps

  Canva backend SWE Codility OA from Sydney: beach can cleanup greedy, friend recommendation, element swap DP, and code reading MCQs. Engineering style counts.

• IBM Software Engineer OA Interview Experience (2026) - K Non-Overlapping Palindromic Substrings DP, Pending

  IBM 2026 SWE OA recap: coding K non overlapping palindromic substrings via two stage DP on palindrome table plus segmentation, scheduling constraint reasoning puzzle, text based be

• Pinterest Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Top K Stream, Pin Dedupe & Home Feed Ranking, Offer

  Pinterest 2026 SDE II loop: HackerRank OA with rolling top K boards, anagram pin dedupe, sessionization; onsite covering campaign windows, personalized feed design, and autocomplet

• Optiver Data Scientist Interview Experience (2026) - VWAP, Options Greeks & ARIMA, Offer

  Optiver 2026 New Grad Data Scientist loop: VWAP anomaly detection, options portfolio delta, ARIMA forecasting OA, streaming median phone screen, execution strategy and VaR onsite r

• Uber New Grad VO Interview Experience (2026) - Meeting Concurrency Sweep Line & Online TreeMap, Offer

  Uber 2026 NG VO first two coding rounds: sweep line on meeting intervals, streaming online version with TreeMap, follow ups on merged peak intervals, and behavioral questions on te

• Amazon New Grad OA Interview Experience (2026) - Interval Connectivity & Distinct Hash, Offer

  Amazon NG OA 70 min HackerRank: Interval Connectivity Reduction (merge + greedy), Maximizing Distinct Hash Values (constructive greedy), plus Work Simulation LP mapping tactics.

• xAI Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Trie Word Search, LRU, Nested Transaction DB, Offer

  xAI SWE loop: 15 min phone screen, 3 round onsite with Word Search II on a letter grid, LRU Cache implementation, and in memory DB with nested transactions design round.

• Hudson River Trading OA Interview Experience (2026) - Order Book Matching & Stock DP, Offer

  HRT 2026 SWE OA walkthrough: Order Book Matching (two pointer greedy), Minimum Transformations for Unique Substrings, and Optimal Trade Execution (Best Time to Buy/Sell IV DP).

• Hudson River Trading Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - CodeSignal OA with Order Book Matching, Offer

  HRT SWE CodeSignal OA walkthrough: order book matching via two pointer greedy, sliding window unique substring rewrite, and Best Time to Buy/Sell Stock IV DP. Onsite invite.

• Lyft Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - OA Driver Matching, ML System Design, Offer

  Lyft SWE/MLE loop: HackerRank OA with greedy driver rider matching, 4 onsite rounds covering coding, HM behavioral, and two destination recommendation ML design rounds.

• Google OA Interview Experience (2026) - Folder Sync & Digit Sharing

  Full walkthrough of Google's 2026 online assessment: Google Drive folder hierarchy sync (tree DP) and maximum group of two digit numbers sharing a common digit. Tested strategies a

• TikTok MLE Interview Experience (2026) - Recommendation Deep Dive & Hard DP, Offer with Sponsorship

  TikTok Machine Learning Engineer loop: HR screen, hiring manager round on recommendation candidate generation and ranker cold start, department head round with loss gradient deriva

• Stripe Software Engineer Intern Interview Experience (2026) - PaymentLedger OOP & Integration Round, Offer

  Stripe 2026 Summer SWE Intern VO: two rounds covering a PaymentLedger OOP design with refund follow ups and a 60 minute Integration round cloning a Git repo and wiring webhooks to

• Anthropic Research Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Offer

  Complete walkthrough of my Anthropic Research Engineer interview: CodeSignal OA, 4 round onsite covering safety filters, Constitutional AI pipelines, and training infrastructure sy

• Anthropic AI Research Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Safety Filter & Constitutional AI Pipeline, Offer

  Anthropic Research Engineer loop from a UCL PhD candidate: ResponseSafetyFilter OA, Constitutional AI pipeline coding, alignment training platform design, offer.

• Optiver SDE New Grad Interview Experience (2026) - Stock Dividend OA & Low-Latency Market Data Design, Offer

  Optiver 2026 SDE NG campus loop: 3h20 OA with stock dividend prefix sums and worst PNL tracker, HR behavioral in English, two system design rounds on lock free market data fan out.

• Microsoft OA Interview Experience (2026) - Alloy Production, Max Team Size, Dominating XOR & MEX, Offer

  Microsoft 2026 New Grad HackerRank OA pool: binary search on alloy units, interval overlap max team size, MSB bucket dominating XOR pairs, and MEX greedy with freely decrementable

• NVIDIA OA Interview Experience (2026) - HackerRank Walkthrough

  NVIDIA SWE OA on HackerRank: Sum of Subarray Minimums (monotonic stack with tiebreaks) and Unique Integers Summing to Zero. Full solutions and speed tips.

• Stripe MLE OA Interview Experience (2026) - PyTorch Speed Sign Classifier & Pandas Attendance, Offer

  Stripe Machine Learning Engineer OA walkthrough: 90 minute HackerRank with a PyTorch CNN for speed sign classification and a pandas groupby problem with same day visit deduplicatio

• TikTok New Grad SDE Interview Experience (2024) - 3-Round VO, Tree Centroid, Nested Iterator, Partition DP, Rejected

  TikTok SDE NG three round loop: two coding rounds on single modification sort, tree centroid rerooting, nested iterator, counting array anagram groups, plus HM partition DP.

• Squarepoint Capital Quant Researcher Interview Experience (2026) - GBM, Markowitz, Limit Order Book, Offer

  Squarepoint Capital full quant loop: MFE flavored probability + coding phone screen, 90 min technical with GBM and Markowitz, 5 round onsite with limit order book and signal decay.

• Citadel OA Interview Experience (2026) - Tree DP & MEX, Offer

  Citadel SWE New Grad OA walkthrough: Minimum Server Upgrade Time (tree DP with same type serialization), Maximum MEX partition DP. Super Day preview and tips.

• Uber SWE OA Interview Experience (2026) - Prime Jumps & Rerooting DP, Offer

  Uber SWE 90 minute HackerRank OA: Prime Jumps (DP with sieve of Eratosthenes) and Minimum Edge Reversal (tree rerooting DP). Full walkthrough with Python code and time budget.

• SIG Quant Trader Interview Experience (2026) - 17-Question OA with Probability, Dice & Balance Puzzles, Pending

  Susquehanna SIG Quant OA: 17 questions in 60 minutes, covering legs in barn linear systems, round table logic, Bayesian factories, three dice expected value, balance beams.

• Stripe Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - 5-Round Onsite Offer

  Inside Stripe's SDE 5 round onsite: account balance settlement, hiring manager chat, API integration in a real repo, Mako debugging, and ledger service system design.

• ByteDance Software Engineer OA Interview Experience (2026) - CodeSignal Skyline Square, Nearly Regular Crosses, Lex-Smallest Reverse

  ByteDance CodeSignal OA: 70 minute four problem set with largest square in skyline, nearly regular cross counting, lexicographic string reversal, overlaps with Uber and Roblox bank

• Stripe Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - 5-Round VO with Account Balance, Mako Debug & Ledger Design, Offer

  Stripe SDE 5 round VO walkthrough: Account Balance coding, HM tradeoff chat, repo based API integration, Mako template debugging, and a concrete Ledger service system design with i

• Uber New Grad Full Loop Interview Experience (2026) - CodeSignal OA, Ride Dispatch OOP & Uber Eats Feed Design, Offer

  Full Uber 2026 NG loop: CodeSignal OA with Prime Jumps, phone screen on interval concurrency, onsite coding with ride dispatch OOP, Uber Eats home feed system design, and behaviora

• Meta Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - E4 Offer

  Walkthrough of Meta's E4 SWE loop: screening, two coding rounds (Min Remove Valid Parens, video DP), news feed ranking system design, behavioral, and team matching.

• Oracle Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Stock Profit, Loan EMI, Packet Repackaging, Rejected

  Oracle SWE HackerRank OA and onsite breakdown: max stock profit at 10^8 scale, piecewise EMI loan comparison, power of two packet repackaging, plus LRU and topological sort onsite.

• Oracle Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - HackerRank OA, Rotated Array, Photo Layer, Offer

  Oracle SWE loop: HackerRank OA with stock max profit, bank loan EMI, and stream packing; phone screen on top K expensive tickers; four onsite rounds including rotated array search

• TSMC SRE Interview Experience (2026) - HackerRank OA, Golang Algorithm Round, Offer

  TSMC SRE full loop: technical fundamentals with Linux depth checks, 90 minute HackerRank OA (linked list + string compression), 120 minute Golang algorithm round on merge k lists a

• SIG Quant Research Phone Interview Experience (2026) - Probability Drill with Penney's Game, Bayes & Three Points on a Circle, Pending

  Susquehanna SIG QR phone interview: 60 minutes of Green Book probability including waiting time paradox, obtuse triangle on a circle, Penney's game, Bayesian coin, poker call.

• TSMC HackerRank OA Interview Experience (2026) - Group Division, Linked List Extraction, Run-Length, Rejected

  TSMC IT Engineer HackerRank OA walkthrough: sort and greedy skill level grouping, pointer surgery linked list extraction, string run length compression edge case failure.

• TSMC Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - HackerRank Fail to Offer, Scale-By-10x System Design

  TSMC SWE four month loop: failed HackerRank OA, 28 day retake, BSID and TSID technical rounds, TSED scale by 10x system design on a write bound service, offer.

• NVIDIA HackerRank OA Interview Experience (2026) - Sum of Subarray Minimums & Zero-Sum Construction, Passed

  NVIDIA 2026 HackerRank OA walkthrough: 90 minutes on two problems covering monotonic stack contribution counting (Sum of Subarray Minimums) and a constructive unique integer zero s

• JPMorgan Chase Software Engineer OA Interview Experience (2026) - Distinct Digit Numbers & Queue Tournament

  JPMorgan Chase HackerRank OA: Distinct Digit Numbers in a range and First Player to K Consecutive Wins in a queue tournament. Full credit submission with digit parsing and deque si

• Microsoft AI Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Merge Intervals, LCA Tree Switch, LLM Recommendation System Design, Offer

  Microsoft Azure AI Engineer loop: Codility OA with Responsible AI MCQs, three coding rounds covering Merge Intervals and LCA, LLM centric system design for sports recommendation wi

• Apple Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - 3-Round Offer

  Apple SWE onsite breakdown: time windowed event counter coding, health data sync system design (E2E encryption, vector clocks), and a values heavy behavioral round.

• Bloomberg SDE New Grad Interview Experience (2026) - OOP Tesla Equity Design & Kafka EM Round, Offer

  Bloomberg 2026 SDE New Grad loop with OOD focus: phone screen social graph BFS and vowel substrings, VO1 TV retention, VO2 Tesla equity O(1) class design, EM Kafka system design.

• Two Sigma Software Engineer OA Interview Experience (2026) - Peak Concurrency Sweep Line, Pipeline Binary Search

  Two Sigma SWE OA breakdown: 75 min HackerRank with server peak concurrency sweep line and pipeline max throughput binary search on answer, plus hashmap tech screen.

• Two Sigma OA Interview Experience (2026) - Peak Concurrent Traffic & Pipeline Throughput, Offer

  Two Sigma 2026 SWE new grad OA: Peak Concurrent Server Traffic (sweep line), Maximum Pipeline Throughput (binary search on answer), and Design HashMap tech screen walkthrough.

• Bloomberg New Grad SDE Interview Experience (2026) - TV Retention, Tesla Equity OOD & Kafka Design, Offer

  Bloomberg 2026 SDE New Grad full loop in NYC: phone screen on vowel substrings, TV Show User Retention coding, Tesla Equity O(1) OOD design, HR round, and EM round designing Kafka.

• NVIDIA Software Engineer VO Interview Experience (2026) - Model Deep Dive, C++ Internals & Two Eggs, Offer

  NVIDIA SWE VO: model architecture deep dive on continuous batching, C++ smart pointer debugging, 12 balls and two eggs puzzles, HM behavioral with team fit conversation.

• JPMorgan Software Engineer OA Interview Experience (2026) - Stock Price Intervals & Huffman Merge, Offer

  JPMorgan 2026 SWE HackerRank OA walkthrough: strictly increasing stock price subarrays via sliding window pair counter and min cost element merge via min heap (Huffman coding), 90

• Anthropic Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Banking System OA, Web Crawler & LRU Persistence, Offer

  Anthropic SDE loop: CodeSignal Banking System OA, HM multi language code review, onsite with concurrent Web Crawler, Claude serving system design, persistent LRU cache, and AI ethi

• Anthropic SDE Interview Experience (2026) - Banking System OA, Claude Serving Design, Offer

  Anthropic SDE loop from a fintech backend engineer: 90 minute banking CodeSignal OA, hiring manager code review, Claude chat serving design, and AI ethics behavioral.

• Microsoft OA Interview Experience (2026) - 4-Problem Walkthrough & Offer

  Full Microsoft OA walkthrough: Max Alloy Production (binary search), Max Team Size (sliding window), Dominating XOR, Maximum MEX. Time management tips and full loop overview.

• Amazon Work Simulation OA Interview Experience (2026) - OA2 Modules Walkthrough, Offer

  Amazon OA2 Work Simulation deep dive: rating vote storage for Amazon Voice, traffic video message queue resilience, DLQ vs retry, inventory SaaS image storage, and LP to action map

• Meta Data Scientist Interview Experience (2026) - SQL Rolling Window & Notifications Product Case, Pending

  Meta DS Analytics loop for Messenger: SQL heavy phone screen on call log schema, onsite SQL with rolling seven day window, notifications quality product case framed around success,

• Roblox Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - 4x4 Missing Values & Stock Bot Revenue, Offer

  Roblox new grad SWE loop: CodeSignal OA with 4x4 missing values matrix and stock bot sliding window, leaderboard system design onsite, offer in 7 weeks.

• Apple Data Scientist Interview Experience (2026) - SQL Window Functions, Sparse Matrix Multiply, Apple News LTV, Offer

  Apple DS loop: stats and project round (paired t test, CI sample size), technical round with SQL device overlap, sparse matrix multiply in Python, and Apple News trial conversion m

• Dropbox SWE Intern Interview Experience (2026) - CodeSignal Candy, SQL Retention, Find Duplicate Files

  Dropbox Canada SWE intern loop: CodeSignal OA with Candy two pass greedy, SQL retention, pandas groupby, onsite coding duplicate files, deep dive, and values behavioral.

• Dropbox SWE Intern Interview Experience (2026) - CodeSignal Candy & SQL Retention, Offer

  Dropbox Summer 2026 intern Canada loop: CodeSignal OA with Candy plus SQL and Pandas, VO coding sliding window, resume deep dive with file API design, and values based behavioral.

• Apple Data Scientist Interview Experience (2026) - Two-Round Stats, SQL, Python, Business Case, Offer

  Senior Apple DS loop from an experienced IC: paired t test, device type SQL, matrix multiplication, Apple News free trial modeling, logistic regression gradient.

• Bloomberg Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - 4-Round Offer

  Bloomberg SDE onsite breakdown: Candy Crush elimination (monotonic stack), first unique word stream, market data cache design, and project deep dive round.

• Goldman Sachs Summer Analyst OA Interview Experience (2026) - Damaged Toy, Encode/Decode, Maze BFS, Offer

  Goldman Sachs Summer Analyst OA: 3 HackerRank problems including circular Josephus style distribution, cyclic key encoding, and bounded jump maze BFS. Full credit run and Super Day

• JPMorgan AWM Risk Summer Analyst Hirevue Interview Experience (2026) - 5-Question Behavioral Walkthrough

  JPMorgan Asset and Wealth Management Risk Hirevue: motivation for AWM, macro impact on clients, STAR teamwork, contained mistake recovery, and 5 year industry outlook.

• Netflix SDE Phone Screen Interview Experience (2026) - Rate Limiter, LRU & Video Streaming Design, Offer

  Netflix SDE loop: sliding window rate limiter phone screen, LRU plus Merge K Lists coding, in memory file system with concurrency follow ups, and video streaming system design.

• Citadel HackerRank OA Interview Experience (2026) - Server Upgrade Binary Search & MEX Valid Sizes, Offer

  Citadel SDE HackerRank OA walkthrough: Minimum Server Upgrade Window via binary search on answer and Memory Block MEX valid sizes after a single +1 operation. Timed at ten minutes

• Stripe Software Engineer VO Interview Experience (2026) - Fraud Sliding Window & Refund Service Design, Offer

  Stripe 60 minute VO for early career SWE: per user rolling window fraud detection with a deque, refund service design with idempotency key plus queue, and STAR conflict behavioral.

• Citadel Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - HackerRank OA with Server Upgrade & MEX, Rejected

  Citadel 2026 HackerRank OA writeup: server upgrade scheduling via binary search on answer, memory block MEX enumeration, and the hidden edge cases that cost me the onsite.

• Goldman Sachs Quant Summer Analyst OA Interview Experience (2026) - Damaged Toy, Cyclic Key, k-Jump Maze, Offer

  Goldman Sachs 2026 Quant Strategies Summer Analyst OA recap: three HackerRank coding problems (Josephus circle, encode/decode cyclic key, k jump maze BFS), nine math questions, rol

• JPMorgan AWM Summer Analyst Hirevue Interview Experience (2026) - Five-Question Behavioral Loop, Pending

  JPMorgan 2026 AWM Risk Summer Analyst Hirevue walkthrough: five questions at 30s prep plus 2 min answer each. Motivation, markets macro, teamwork, mistake, and five year industry o

• Optiver Quant OA Interview Experience (2026) - Numbers Station & Probability, Offer

  Optiver 2026 Quant OA breakdown: reaction mini games, Numbers Station streaming parser, coupon collector probability, plus trader tech round, QR math and take home Black Scholes.

• Apple Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Sorted Squares, Steps Tracker, HealthKit Sync Design, Offer

  Apple iOS SWE loop: two pointer sorted squares phone screen, daily steps tracker, HealthKit multi device sync system design, Apple values behavioral, offer.

• Amazon SDE Intern Interview Experience (2026) - Concatenated Words & Resume Deep Dive VO, Offer

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• Optiver OA Interview Experience (2026) - Max-Heap Halving & K-Partition First-Last DP, Offer

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• TikTok New Grad SDE OA Interview Experience (2026) - CodeSignal Drone Delivery, Text Justify, Mountain Pair Gap, Battery Rotation

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• Airbnb Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Task Scheduling & Listing Search, Offer

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• Goldman Sachs Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - CoderPad Area of Squares & Longest Subarray

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• Goldman Sachs Technology Summer Analyst CoderPad Interview Experience (2026) - Grid Squares & Sliding Window, Pending

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• Microsoft 26 New Grad SDE OA Interview Experience (2026) - Max Score Jumping Path & Reduce n to Zero, Offer

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• Google OA Interview Experience (2026) - Fill 2D Array, Largest Subarray, Max Cake Area, Compare Strings, Offer

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• Meta Software Engineer Full Loop Interview Experience (2026) - Largest Square, Leaderboard Scale-Up & AI Coding, Offer

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• Amazon Intern 2-Round VO Interview Experience (2026) - Word Ladder BFS & Concatenated Words DP, Offer

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• Netflix Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Command Undo & Ads Audience Targeting, Offer

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• Jane Street Quant Researcher Interview Experience (2026) - Optimal Stopping, Market Making & Stat Arb, Pending

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• Amazon SDE New Grad Interview Experience (2026) - 3-Round VO Offer

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• Jane Street Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Order Book, Bayesian & Stat Arb

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• Scale AI Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Take-home, ML Discussion & Debug-the-Repo, Offer

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• Cisco OA Interview Experience (2026) - Kth Largest, Reverse List, Topological Sort, Offer

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• Two Sigma OA HackerRank Interview Experience (2026) - Time Series & Graph Problems

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• Scale AI Software Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Data Pipeline Design, Offer

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• Jane Street Quant Developer Interview Experience (2026) - Offer

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• Bloomberg Software Engineer Virtual Onsite Interview Experience (2025) - Offer

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• Meta Data Scientist Virtual Onsite Interview Experience (2025) - Offer

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• Capital One Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience (2025) - Fraud Detection System Design, Offer

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• Netflix Data Engineer Interview Experience (2026) - Recommendation Pipeline, Star Schema & A/B Testing, Offer

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• Airbnb Software Engineer Full Loop Interview Experience (2025) - Listings Search Design, Offer

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• Netflix Experimentation Intern Interview Experience (2026) - Streaming Platform Design & Diff-in-Diff, Offer

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• Anthropic AI Research Engineer Full Loop Interview Experience (2025) - Offer

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• NVIDIA Software Engineer Full Loop Interview Experience (2025) - Offer

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• Snowflake Online Assessment Interview Experience (2024) - Data Processing & SQL

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• Pinterest Software Engineer Interview Experience (2024) - Feed Ranking Design, Offer

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• Autodesk Senior SWE Interview Experience (2026) - Offer

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• Microsoft OA HackerRank Questions 2026: Latest Problems, Patterns & Solutions Guide

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• Goldman Sachs OA HackerRank Questions 2026: Coding Problems, Math Logic & Solutions

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