Benchling·Software Engineer

Benchling Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

San Francisco, CAPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was a recruiter call, and then I moved into a single technical round: a one-hour LeetCode-style coding question.

I did get rejected, but the experience with the interviewer and recruiting team felt genuinely positive.

The interviewer was very interactive and walked with me as I built the solution. There was also room for me to ask for feedback on where I was weakest. I went through the solution, but I ran out of time before I could optimize further and talk through complexities in depth, and that likely hurt me.

The prompt itself centered on cache eviction. It leaned on hash maps and queues, with several edge cases that made it more than a straightforward implementation. Even without an offer, I left

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