Etsy·Software Engineer

Etsy Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Posted Dec 2010 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My entry point was a job posting found on Craigslist, and I heard back quickly from someone closer to management for an initial personality and experience call.

After that, recruiting took over, and I had a face-to-face conversation with the engineer on the team that was hiring. That chat felt very centered on team fit, with only light technical discussion tied to the technologies I’d used—no coding and no algorithms.

The next step was a more technical interview. I was asked data type and algorithm-related questions and also got very specific questions related to .NET, which matched my background even though Etsy’s stack wouldn’t have been the same. I didn’t perform as well as I hoped on that round.

What stayed consistent, though, was how clean and

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