Plaid·Software Engineer

Plaid Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Jul 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first round took about two hours, which was honestly a big investment for me.

That round was a technical deep dive where I had to talk about a project I was working on at my current company, and they expected slides. The interviewer kept grilling me, and it felt more like they were pulling information from me than engaging in a two-way discussion.

The second round was a coding interview, but the prompt wasn’t typical LeetCode. What made it uncomfortable was the way the interviewer communicated—he sounded unsure about what he wanted and barely gave feedback as I tried to figure out what code changes he was expecting. I produced the output he seemed to want, but it

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