Abnormal AI·Software Engineer

Abnormal AI Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

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New York, NYPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call, I moved into a hiring manager screen where I walked through my background and the projects I’d worked on, and talked about what I was specifically hoping to learn from the team.

Everyone I interacted with felt welcoming and responsive, and the process itself felt fairly structured with clear handoffs between rounds.

The next part was technical, and it leaned heavily on using AI rather than classic leetcode-style prompts. I went through a technical screen where I had to work with a larger codebase: I used AI to help me understand how it was organized, then I implemented a feature with AI assistance and wrote tests for what I added. From there, the loop included additional rounds that stayed grounded in real engineering, including a system-design/incidence-management

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