Etsy Software Engineer interview experience (2025)

Etsy Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a conversation with HR about my background, followed by a technical round where I was asked to work through a system-design-style problem related to chat messaging.

The conversation didn’t feel fully collaborative; I walked through tradeoffs and options, but the focus narrowed hard onto database details—especially the relational database angle—and the interviewer seemed only interested in a very exact, query-level outcome. I remember preparing more broadly and wanting to discuss the wider design picture, but it kept coming back to strict database specifics and table/schema-level correctness.

After that, the flow continued with additional technical evaluation. I also had a live coding component where I was given a small Flask project and tasked with

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Etsy Software Engineer interview experience

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