Niantic·Software Engineer

Niantic Software Engineer interview experience

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Hard

Positive

United StatesPosted Dec 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My path started with a recruiter call that felt mostly productive, followed by a technical phone screen where I talked through my background and then worked on algorithm-style questions.

After that, I went into an on-site loop that included multiple rounds—some coding focused and others more general, but all still very rooted in core CS fundamentals.

Across the onsite experience, the interviewers covered things like tree problems and the kinds of techniques you’d associate with dynamic programming and greedy methods. At one point I spent a lot of time on a single coding question and, near the end, the interviewer asked why I was interested in the company and gave me room to ask questions back. It felt like there was some genuine engagement instead of it being strictly

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