Oscar Health·Software Engineer

Oscar Health Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Feb 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview process started with an HR conversation, followed by scheduling a one-hour coding test with the lead engineer.

The coding question looked easy at first, but I got confused midstream and couldn’t complete it.

What helped, though, was that the lead engineer did try to provide some support during the session. Even with that assistance, I still wasn’t able to finish the work, and I left feeling like I’d lost track of the reasoning in the middle rather than failing because the problem was inherently too advanced.

I didn’t end up receiving an offer. The main reflection I had afterward was that the question was ambiguous enough under pressure that a small misunderstanding snowballed into not being able to

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