DigitalOcean·Software Engineer

DigitalOcean Software Engineer interview experience

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

My interview path had a more structured “stages” feel, especially because of the take-home work.

I started with manager conversations—first some recruiting/HR coordination, then a manager call, and then a take-home coding assignment that felt like a real-world problem rather than pure algorithms. I remember thinking the assignment was the heaviest part of the process because it asked me to show my thinking end to end, not just get one correct answer.

After the take-home got a thumbs-up, I moved into a set of technical interviews with engineers from the team I’d join. The day-to-day collaboration theme came up a lot, and the questions ranged from explaining my technical choices back to

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