Plaid·Software Engineer

Plaid Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

San Francisco, CAPosted Nov 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an extremely lengthy interview process that dragged on across multiple rounds and several different session types.

It started with technical video interviews that ran about 45 minutes and then another that was closer to an hour.

After that, I had an onsite sequence with multiple technical sessions—one around 90 minutes and another about an hour—followed by a 30-minute project deep dive. The final segment was a behavioral and big-picture technical conversation that lasted about 45 minutes.

The overall structure made it feel very thorough, but also exhausting: by the end, there were a lot of conversations to keep straight and it took a significant time commitment to get through. I didn’t receive an offer,

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