Mid-level interview experiences

Rakuten Engineer in Singapore: a two-week loop with Merge k Sorted Lists, Divide Two Integers, a banking app design and Spring Boot and React questions

Two weeks from OA to final. Merge k Sorted Lists + Divide Two Integers, a banking app design, some Spring Boot/React questions, then the manager.

Roblox Mid-level Engineer: OA, game-based challenges and a project deep dive

Recruiter chat, OA, a game-based coding round plus project deep dive, then behavioural. 4 months of prep and it paid off. Starting soon.

Wayve Application Software Engineer in Leonberg: factorial three ways, a hiring manager chat and a self-driving simulation system design

Referral. Factorial three ways with complexity follow-ups, hiring manager, a simulation system design, two behavioural rounds. 3 weeks total.

GitHub Mid-level Engineer: recruiter call, Battleship LLD and a Number of Islands style question

6 weeks end to end. Battleship LLD (do it in Python), a Number of Islands variant, and a lot of questions about remote work.

CrowdStrike Mid-level Engineer: LeetCode pair, take-home API, then a remote onsite with LLD, HLD and behavioural

Quick, well run process. Two LeetCode mediums, a take-home API, then LLD + HLD + behavioural in one day. They care a lot about the behavioural.

By Samuel Davis

Scale AI Engineer in New York: seven rounds, a deck of cards LLD, a RAG pipeline OOP round and two ML rounds that ended it

7 rounds. Deck of cards LLD, RAG pipeline OOP round, behavioural, then two ML rounds. Tripped on ML fundamentals and got rejected.

By Samuel Davis

Amazon SDE II in Seattle: OA, phone screen and a four-interview loop with every question listed

Full SDE II loop with every question I got, OA through to the 4 onsite interviews. Know the 16 principles cold. Declined the offer.

Capital One Software Engineer: CodeSignal OA, recruiter screen and a four-round Power Day

CodeSignal OA (4 questions), recruiter screen, then a Power Day with system design, a business case with CSVs and a 3-step OOP problem.

Google Software Engineer in New York: OA, two LC rounds with Googlyness, then team matching to an offer

OA, two rounds with 2 LC questions each plus Googlyness, then a long wait and two team matching calls. Offer accepted.

AMD Mid-level Engineer: Memory Allocator LLD, WhatsApp design and two DP questions

Memory allocator LLD, design WhatsApp, then two DP questions with the hiring manager. Glassdoor was right about the DP. Declined on comp.