DoubleVerify·Software Engineer

DoubleVerify Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Jun 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call, I ended up doing a technical screen with a hiring manager, and it started fairly standard—questioning tied to my background—before turning into a heavy block of database and SQL questions.

The overall vibe soured fast; the way the hiring manager came across felt arrogant to me, and it immediately made me question whether I wanted to join the team based on how the process was going.

From there, I went through more rounds that felt long and oddly unwelcoming. I had multiple phone and interview sessions that mixed technical and behavioral work, plus system design. The technical prompts often felt vague or generic, and I remember at least one interviewer not even going through my CV before pushing me into an implementation-style task like binary search. Even when I could complete

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