Plaid·Software Engineer

Plaid Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Jun 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview loop followed a pretty full-circle SWE structure.

I started with an initial coding round with two real-world DS&A problems, including graphs and max heaps. After that, a virtual onsite happened about two weeks later.

Onsite, I did a 90-minute coding round using a real-world example that could be solved with a HashMap, then extended through follow-ups. There was also a system design interview that stayed fairly simple, centered around API gateways, load balancers, queues, and SQL/NoSQL. I then had a behavioral round and a coffee chat where I could ask questions. The whole sequence—initial coding to onsite coding to system design to

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