Oscar Health·Software Engineer

Oscar Health Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

New York, NYPosted Jul 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The early part of my process involved a lot of HR and business talk before I actually got to meet engineers, and that mismatch in pacing colored everything.

They still flew me out, but when I arrived the setup didn’t work for me—there I was in a cramped, fluorescent office space with broken chairs, trying to do interviews that didn’t feel carefully calibrated.

The conversations with engineers focused on vague, “standard” algorithm problems. The process also felt oddly disconnected from my background; one engineer showed me backend code even though I was interviewing as a front-end developer, and there was an expectation that I would already understand their particular transpilation for documentation. Another interviewer kept pushing and

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