Checkr·Backend Engineer

Checkr Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter phone screen where I mostly talked through my background, but I didn’t get much detail about the role or the team.

After that, I had a live coding interview with an engineer, and it quickly turned unpleasant.

During the coding part, the engineer repeatedly suggested directions that were incorrect, and I had to spend time pushing back, explaining why the approach wouldn’t work, and steering the conversation back toward something viable. By the end, when I asked questions, the responses didn’t feel professional or respectful—there was a kind of casualness about the job and even statements that implied they didn’t particularly care.

It didn’t leave me with a good picture of what it would be like to work

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