C3.ai·Software Engineer

C3.ai Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Feb 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I hit a tougher-than-average technical bar, with deep algorithmic rounds that left little room for mistakes, and I was rejected despite working on optimizations.

Technical deep-dive rounds — I faced difficult algorithmic questions (including cases like 2D DP hard problems and other hard LeetCode-style tasks), with one round requiring optimization discussions.
Implementation pressure — in at least one interview, I ran out of time while trying to improve/implement optimizations.
System design pressure for new-grad loop — one path included system design as part of the multi-round setup, but the technical difficulty was the dominant challenge. Outcome: I didn’t progress, and my takeaway was that the role demanded near-complete

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