Cloudflare·Software Engineer

Cloudflare Software Engineer interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process for me started with a phone screen, and it was already a bit unusual compared to the typical interview flow I’d seen elsewhere.

In that first call, I was asked to determine the minimum number of partitions needed to fit a list of used partitions.

The onsite was much more demanding. I got a coding challenge based on LeetCode 362, and then I faced a system design question about transmitting logs from an edge data center up to a core data center. After that, there was a project retrospective discussion and a standard behavioral interview. The overall feel was tough and technical, and even beyond the specific problems, the range of topics—coding, distributed logging, and retrospective—made it feel like a serious bar for

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