Cloudflare·Software Engineer

Cloudflare Software Engineer interview experience

Medium

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San Francisco, USACandidate report, summarized by Dataford

My onsite was packed into multiple rounds with different formats, and it started with real coding.

In the first round, I pair programmed to implement a memory-layered LRU cache. After that, I went to a lunch interview with two engineers and a PM from the CDN team, and those people stayed involved in the day as my interviewers.

Later, there was a technical interview covering fundamental knowledge across operating systems, networking, and protocols. Another round began with a question about a service implementation, but it shifted midstream into an algorithm problem about valid IP addresses. I also had a behavioral round with a tech lead where we ended up talking about Chinese food, and

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