Oscar Health·Software Engineer

Oscar Health Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

New York, NYPosted Aug 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I first visited their office to meet the CTO and a software engineer on the platform side, and those conversations were genuinely encouraging.

We talked about architecture and I did some white-boarding, and I left with a very good feeling about the team.

Later, I came back for a more formal interview where the early conversations were still strong and code/architecture focused. Then the last interviewer asked me to write code to reverse a UTF-8 string on a laptop they provided. I didn’t finish completely within the interview window, and they didn’t give me extra time. That moment threw me off because it felt like a pure time-boxed exercise rather than a fair indicator.

I told the recruiter about my concern, and she seemed to

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