Fetch·Backend Engineer

Fetch Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

United StatesPosted Jul 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an initial take-home where I had to build an API.

It felt like the assignment was aimed at getting beyond surface-level knowledge and seeing how I design things end to end. After I turned it in, I had a 1:1 to walk through what I submitted, and that conversation quickly turned into deeper follow-ups on my approach.

Once the take-home discussion wrapped, I moved into interviews with the team that ran for several hours. The overall day felt demanding, and the process had a tough, high-effort vibe rather than being a quick chat. I didn’t end up getting an offer, but the structure was clear: create the API, explain the choices, then go through

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