Pine Labs·Software Engineer

Pine Labs Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with two technical rounds scheduled close together.

The first combined DSA and a system design component where I had to work through the House Robber problem, then discuss high-level design for a Spotify-style use case. The second round shifted into system design again, and it felt like they also wanted me to explain the current architecture and how that would map to the next design decisions. Both rounds landed in the medium band.

I found the system design expectations to be fairly deep: they wanted coherent thinking end to end, not just a diagram. Even though the DSA parts were solvable in principle, I still felt the pressure of fitting

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