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- GoogleSenior · Software Engineer
Google Interview Process - Senior Software Engineer
I have ten years’ experience, mostly in backend services and distributed systems. The Google process was virtual, with a recruiter call, technical screen and five onsite interviews spread over two days. I used Python. Recruiter We discussed
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- WiseSenior · Backend Engineer
Wise Senior Engineer: Merge Intervals OA, circuit breaker pairing and a payment gateway with distributed transactions
Merge Intervals OA, pair programming on a circuit breaker, payment gateway design that goes deep on distributed transactions. Accepted.
By Daniel KhanPublished
- CiscoSenior · Software Engineer
Cisco Senior Software Engineer in Oranmore: conversational theory round, Number of Islands in Java, whiteboard design and IntelliJ debugging
Three rounds in Oranmore. Mostly conversational: OOP, patterns, SQL theory, Number of Islands in Java, then a whiteboard of my own system.
By Daniel KhanPublished
- OpenAISenior · Software Engineer
OpenAI Senior Engineer in San Francisco: Decode String, a GitHub Actions system design and Stream Parsing and Sliding Windows
Decode String live, design GitHub Actions (queue fairness, noisy neighbours), then two coding rounds + behavioural. Accepted. Grind and you can do it.
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- ZscalerSenior · Backend Engineer
Zscaler Engineer in Tel Aviv: team lead chat, an onsite with Min Stack, an append-only log SQL problem and LRU Cache, then the R&D director
3 rounds, half behavioural. Min Stack, an append-only log SQL problem, LRU cache, then the R&D director. Nothing exotic if you've done the lists.
By Marcus ClarkPublished
- TeslaSenior · Fullstack Engineer
Tesla Software Engineer: Codility OA, a React infinite scroll screen, an onsite with Trapping Rain Water, an OTA fleet update LLD and a telemetry pipeline, then Evidence of Excellence
Codility OA, React infinite scroll screen, 4-round onsite (Trapping Rain Water, OTA update LLD, telemetry HLD), then the Evidence of Excellence write-up.
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- MonzoSenior · Backend Engineer
Monzo SE III in London: CV deep dive, a Java web crawler take-home and a top N songs system design
CV deep dive, web crawler take-home in Java with a review call, then a top-N songs design at Spotify scale. Have your Redis answer ready.
By Nora NguyenPublished
- DisneySenior · Software Engineer
Disney Senior Engineer in Los Angeles: phone screen, a graph BFS coding round and a data pipeline system design on Excalidraw
Phone screen, a tech screen mixing resume questions with a BFS problem, then a 40 minute data pipeline design on Excalidraw. Nice loop.
By Marcus ClarkPublished
- AndurilSenior · Software Engineer
Anduril Engineer via referral: Group Anagrams, Basic Calculator and a drone test data ingestion design on Excalidraw
Referral loop. Group Anagrams, then a 4-part onsite with Basic Calculator and a drone data ingestion design. Why Anduril comes up every round.
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- BarclaysSenior · Backend Engineer
Barclays Software Engineer in Prague: a Number of Islands style graph problem, SQL, OOP and multithreading questions, then a leadership round
Three rounds in Prague. Number of Islands variant, SQL joins/indexes/partitions, OOP and multithreading questions, then leadership behavioural.
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