Coinbase·Software Engineer

Coinbase Software Engineer interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ran into a Coinbase online assessment that was straightforward conceptually but required lots of concrete coding, especially for a cloud storage feature set.

Online assessment (coding-heavy) — I implemented core cloud storage functionality: creating users and adjusting their capacity, enforcing capacity limits by deleting existing files in a defined order when space runs out.
Compression/decompression — I also had to add file compression and decompression logic as part of the system behavior.
Focus guidance — In similar attempts, the interviewer guidance emphasized that performance optimization wasn’t the priority; straightforward implementations were encouraged for debuggability. Outcome: I didn’t report the final result,

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