Compass·Software Engineer

Compass Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My onsite was intense and compressed into a very short window.

I went through three rounds scheduled back-to-back within the same day over roughly three hours. The first round was behavioral and they seemed to treat it as a priority. After that I hit a hard DSA-style coding round where the prompt was an advanced graph problem at a level that genuinely surprised me, especially for what I understood as a junior role.

The third round was pair programming. I was given a Python script and asked to hunt down a bug and get it working. Compared to the graph challenge, it was a different kind of stress—less about coming up with the algorithm from scratch and

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