Etsy·Software Engineer

Etsy Software Engineer interview experience

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Brooklyn, NYPosted Dec 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process started with an online application, then a recruiter scheduled a 45–60 minute call with an engineering manager.

That conversation split evenly between getting to know me—my experience and why I was interested in Etsy—and a small, not very challenging coding exercise on a shared tool.

After that, I heard back quickly and was emailed a take-home coding challenge with an unlimited amount of time. It didn’t feel conceptually hard, but it did require real effort: writing documentation, testing, and making sure everything was presentable took longer than I expected. The next day I was moved forward to onsite interviews.

The onsite day in New York was handled very smoothly. I planned the trip about two

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