Plaid·Customer Success Engineer

Plaid Customer Success Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted Mar 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a brief recruiter call and then was given a take-home challenge that, according to what I learned later, was the same one they’d been using for years.

It was basically a known exercise: I spent about a week working on it to the best of my ability.

After I submitted, I was rejected. The reason felt almost trivial compared to the effort—like I was missing a single key word in my answer. The way the process played out left me feeling like the company didn’t really care about optimizing for the candidate experience, especially since the “precision” of the grading seemed to outweigh the overall work.

I didn’t get an offer. The lasting impression was that the process felt broken and overly rigid, and it turned the experience into something I

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