Opendoor Software Engineer interview experience (2019)

Opendoor Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Feb 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a loop that felt relatively light on the surface: an onsite with a couple coding rounds and a design-leaning question, plus a separate algorithm/system-style check depending on how they framed it.

The onsite questions weren’t presented as especially complex, but the experience felt strangely unfocused, like I was being evaluated on very specific details.

One of the design discussions threw me off because it didn’t resemble what I expected from a true software design conversation. I ended up talking at length about scalability and use cases, only to notice the interviewer barely engaged and seemed distracted. Eventually it turned out the question was really about SQL syntax, which made me feel like I had been talking past the actual objective. Elsewhere, I ran into a coding interview

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Opendoor Software Engineer interview experience

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