OpenTable·Software Engineer

OpenTable Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

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San Francisco, CAPosted Apr 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started pretty conventionally: a recruiter call followed by an onsite sequence that felt like the classic tech interview stack.

Across the day, I went through a couple of coding-focused sessions, an architectural-style discussion, and then two higher-level conversations centered more on softer skills.

On the coding side, I dealt with whiteboard work where I had to actually reason through the solution, not just recite definitions. One interview also pushed me to refine the approach—after I finished the first whiteboard coding problem, the interviewer asked me to implement a better method based on what they’d described. It felt like they wanted to see how I iterated when the goalposts shifted.

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