Foursquare·Software Engineer

Foursquare Software Engineer interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted Dec 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a fairly complete software engineer loop that started with a recruiter screen, then moved into homework, and finally landed on an onsite.

The take-home was a structured set of work: it included coding tasks and a design-focused question. They gave me a window to complete it, and once I turned it in, I was invited to the onsite.

At the onsite, the format broke into multiple technical rounds. I had a round that reviewed the homework with an emphasis on role-specific knowledge, then I went into whiteboard coding where the focus was fundamentals like data structures and algorithms. Next came systems design, where the conversation centered on distributed systems and data modeling. The final part was a manager-style conversation

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