Foursquare Software Engineer interview experience

It began with a conversation with a director, followed by a technical phone screen where I got a code challenge. After that, the process went quiet for a while—enough dead silence that I had to send an updated schedule because my availability had shifted. Eventually I got back in and made it to a virtual onsite where everything felt compressed.

The onsite was four back-to-back interviews without scheduled breaks, which ended up being the worst part of the whole journey. I asked for breaks and the recruiter tried to adjust, but it didn’t really work out. Across the interviews, the questions