Compass·Software Engineer

Compass Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Feb 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a fairly structured loop that started with a recruiter phone call, followed by two technical phone interviews and then a long onsite.

After the initial recruiter chat, about a week later I got the technical screens, and both were run through Coderpad. The problems were classic algorithms—very much in the vein of what you’d see on LeetCode-style questions—and since I was interviewing for a front-end role, the focus was on JavaScript.

The onsite was the biggest time commitment: it lasted around five hours and included lunch. I sat through four interviews with engineering managers—two that involved live coding/whiteboarding and two that leaned into architecture discussion. Even when I felt like I was only doing “okay” on the

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