Applied Intuition Software Engineer interview experience

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Palo Alto, USACandidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call that lasted about 30 minutes, I went into a phone screen where I had to validate a JSON against a protobuf-style structure.

It felt very “format and correctness” oriented, like the goal was making sure I understood how to map fields and types rather than just writing something that compiles.

A week or so later, I moved into an onsite that had four rounds: three coding rounds and a lead chat. The coding problems included scaling a Game of Life implementation, merging 2D line segments, and handling nested structures with BFS. I remember the nested/BFS one as the most conceptually busy, because it required careful traversal logic rather than just straightforward iteration. The lead chat was more personal—my

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