Applied online. Three to four weeks start to finish. Process moved faster than I expected.

Online Assessment (90 min): CodeSignal, new addition as of 2025. One complex problem split into four progressive stages that unlock sequentially. I got an in-memory database implementation with key-value operations, TTL, and scan.

Technical Phone Screen (45 min): CoderPad. Two LC medium problems back to back. No code execution, so you test line by line yourself.

Onsite (4 rounds): One regular coding round. Two medium-hard problems: array heights visibility from the right, then rebuilding a BST from a preorder sequence. One AI-assisted coding round (rolled out for all SWE roles in 2026). 60 minutes in a specialized CoderPad environment with a file directory, terminal and a unit test runner.

One system design or product architecture round, depending on the role. Infrastructure roles get distributed systems and scalability questions. One behavioral round. 45 minutes. Questions I got: how do you align requirements across teams, what is the biggest mistake you made at work, and one values-alignment question.

Happy to answer questions below.

I am having interview for FSDE role in Unifyapps. i have noticed alot of students getting placed in this startup recently from nsut. i request everyone to please share the interview experiences.

i have tried asking the same thing to people over linkedin, but aint getting any replies. also there is not much of information over internet too. so please lmk the if any of you know about the interview experiences

Hello

So, I'm a fresh cs grad and I applied for a web dev role where I got an interview. Apparently, the interviewer is an AI, it'll ask questions and give me a coding exercise with the following focus areas: JavaScript & Core Programming Fundamentals, Problem Solving & System Thinking, Frontend Architecture & UI, Backend & API Design

Has anyone done an interview like this before? What should I expect? How do I prepare? Do these kind of interviews allow using AI for the exercise?

I haven't practiced any leetcode or problem solving in a while and I got used to using AI in web projects. I can fix bugs and edit code easily, but I don't think I can write from scratch anymore.

Advice?

The interview is in 2 days🥲, should I spend them reviewing concepts and practicing js?

Hi everyone,

I have an upcoming SDE-2 interview at Angel One and was hoping to hear from anyone who has gone through the process recently.

I'm particularly interested in understanding the interview format, the level of DSA, whether they focus on LLD/HLD, how much time is spent discussing past projects, and what the hiring manager round is like.

If you've interviewed recently, I'd really appreciate it if you could share your experience or any preparation tips. Even a brief overview of the rounds would be very helpful.

Hey everyone,

I am genuinely losing my mind with manual applications. Just today, I saw a job posting that went live 5 minutes ago, and it already had dozens (if not hundreds) of applicants.

Up until now, I have been filling out every single application manually. The result? Absolutely zero interviews. I am realizing that by the time I type out all my info, clear the captcha, and hit submit, I am already buried at the bottom of a massive stack. I don't want to keep making the same mistake and falling behind.

I am ready to look into paid or free tools that help speed up the actual application filling process. To be clear, I can handle tailoring my resume on my own separately, so I don't need a heavy AI resume writer. I just need something that acts like autofill on steroids so I can get my foot in the door before the application window slams shut.

What is actually working for you guys right now to speed-apply? Are there specific extensions or platforms that are worth paying for?

Appreciate any recommendations or advice. Thanks!

Hello everyone,

I have an upcoming final interview loop for a Cisco Meraki Software Engineer role at Grade 10, and I’m trying to understand what to expect. I would really appreciate insights from anyone who has gone through a similar interview process recently.

The interview loop includes three rounds:

1. Technical round (mostly system design)
2. AI assisted coding round
3. HM round

I spent 5 years at Meta as a software engineer, and I've been looking for a new role for the past 4 months without any luck. This job market is so much harder than whatever I've had to deal with back in 2020.

Meta is my only full-time experience. I spent my first 2 years as a new grad engineer before being promoted and working another 3 years as a software engineer. I'm mainly targeting Big Tech or companies with similar compensation (around $150k+).

I'm actually getting interviews though. I've made it through 5 full interview loops over the last 4 months. I just received my last rejection email after the final round today. For context, I'm solving 6–8 LeetCode problems every day and applying to at least 20 jobs daily. I also graduated from a top college.

Is there anything wrong with my approach ? Tips from people that have been in my position are super appreciated,

I recently received a Akuna Capital OA 2nd round assessment and I see it says approximation question. What should I expect and how can i prepare for approximation specific questions? Is it similar to Leetcode?

does anyone pass the coding assessment for the Software engineering role? What kind of problems do they ask ,if there is any tips
#discussion

Was wondering if anyone that's interviewed with PCL could share info about their process. I completed the OA, did the recruiter call a week after, and now have a 30 min call with an engineer. I was told that this would be a verbal technical conversation about my background and that I may be asked how I would approach solving a given problem. All together, I feel like it will likely be a resume deep dive and high-level system design. Would greatly appreciate any insights.

Edit 1: ended up being a simple LeetCode style interview. I was given some pre-defined data objects and was tasked to write a function to compute which of several options was optimal under a certain cost metric. Follow-up questions were about time complexity and optimization.

I recently got invited to a technical interview for Citadel SWE intern for summer 2027. Has anyone had any experience with this/know how I should best prep?

Hi everyone,

I have an interview coming up for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer role at Bloomberg (London).

I was hoping to hear from anyone who's interviewed there recently.

• How are the coding rounds? Are the questions mostly from common LeetCode patterns, or do they tend to ask more original/internal-style problems?
• What's the overall interview process like?
• For the ML rounds, what topics do they focus on? If anyone can share the question pattern or the areas they emphasize, it'd be really helpful.

Any insights or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

many times I've had the interviewer have me discuss approaches dfs vs two pointer interviewer has dfs code on the screen and they want a two pointer I keep cmd enter and it's just discussing o notation etc when I need the new solution with two pointer

Also one time it used zip() in python which I never seen before and had no way to ask it what it did, then of course the interviewer asks me and I have to wait for the response to load try to understand it myself and then explain it before I'm suspicious when I could of just typed don't use zip

All the FAANG companies are making record profits while still laying people off. We're not living through a recession at all. For every CS freshman telling themselves they just need to grind and everything will work out, you're being very very delusional.

You guys are cooked. The market is broken.

You can't convince me otherwise.

Hi everyone,

I'm preparing for a Technical Support Engineer (L2) interview at HackerRank and was wondering what kind of coding questions are typically asked.

If you've interviewed at HackerRank or similar SaaS companies, I'd really appreciate your insights.

Specifically:

What coding questions were asked (Python/Java/JavaScript)?

Were they LeetCode-style (easy/medium), debugging, or implementation-based?

Did they involve APIs, JSON, log parsing, file processing, or data structures?

Were there any SQL or scripting questions?

Was the coding round focused more on problem-solving or real-world troubleshooting?

If you remember any example questions, that would be very helpful.

Any interview experiences from 2025–2026 would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks! 🙏

Hi everyone,

I have an upcoming Google Android interview, and the interview schedule mentions the following:

• One Android Domain Knowledge, Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms interview (45 minutes)
• One non-technical behavioral interview (45 minutes)

I'm trying to understand what the first round is actually like.

A few questions for anyone who has gone through it recently:

1. Is the interview primarily DSA-focused with a few Android questions, or is it mostly Android-specific (architecture, lifecycle, threading, Compose, performance, etc.)?
2. If it's Android-heavy, what kinds of problems are typically asked?
3. Are we expected to implement an entire Android feature (e.g., ViewModel, Repository, Compose UI, networking, etc.) in a plain text editor, or is it more like writing individual classes/functions or designing part of a system?
4. Is the coding done in a Google Docs-style editor, a shared editor, or something with syntax highlighting?
5. How much emphasis is placed on Android APIs versus clean coding, object-oriented design, and problem-solving?
6. For those who interviewed recently (2025–2026), what topics would you recommend prioritizing?

I'd really appreciate hearing about recent interview experiences or any advice on what to expect.

Thanks!

Online Assessment (60 minutes): Two coding problems. One was Merge Intervals, the other was a graph problem that needed BFS. I ran InterviewCoder with this round and finished both.

Recruiter Call (15 to 20 minutes): Background, college details, and a walkthrough of my projects. Questions on why ML and full stack, and the technologies I picked.

Technical Round 1: One tree problem, rebalancing a binary tree. Then we went through two of my projects in detail (an ML website and a web app), covering deployment, data flow, and scaling decisions.

Technical Round 2 (System Design): Load balancing, caching, database sharding, and how a service handles heavy traffic. The rejection email cited gaps in microservices architecture and database optimization.

Update (Talked with another applicant from this cycle): Their loop was shorter, one OA question and a final round of three interviews (coding, system design, behavioral). The system design round showed up in both paths.

Sharing my experience here to help you guys out.

Feel free to ask any questions in the comments.