Patreon Software Engineer interview experience (2022)

Patreon Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Dec 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an introductory call with a recruiter, I got sent into a tech screen where the recruiter had already been transparent about roles, responsibilities, and even comp details like base ranges and incentives.

I appreciated the clarity on paper, but the technical interview itself didn’t feel constructive. The engineer interviewing me started off already disengaged—once the problem was handed over, he was mostly silent while he typed.

The tech portion didn’t feel like I was getting help or back-and-forth; it was more like I was expected to run the whole thing myself with minimal interaction. Even when I tried to push through and make progress, it ended up being the kind of call where it was hard to gauge whether I was hitting what they wanted. I had the sense that the difficulty wasn’t necessarily

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