Glean (CA)·Software Engineer

Glean (CA) Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Palo Alto, CAPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started with background questions—things I’d worked on that excited me—and then it transitioned into DSA-focused questions.

Depending on how much time was left, it could include up to two DSA questions, and if there was time, system design would come at the end.

The difficulty was described as difficult, and the structure backed that up by making the technical expectations potentially deeper than a single coding problem. It was less about a fixed script and more about how the interviewer managed time after the background portion.

I wasn’t offered the role. The process felt like they were measuring how well I could handle technical depth under time pressure, not just how I performed on one topic. My honest

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