Plaid·Software Engineer

Plaid Software Engineer interview experience

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Salt Lake City, UTPosted Oct 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got pulled into the process after meeting the team at an on-campus event.

A few days later, I came in for an on-campus interview that lasted about an hour, where I worked through a problem that wasn’t algorithm-heavy but did require using data structures effectively.

Shortly after, I had a 30-minute hangouts screen with a manager. Then, a few days later, I was given a take-home exercise in TypeScript. They said it should take around 4–6 hours, and based on my experience with HTTP I felt that range was pretty fair. After I finished it, I returned for an onsite that ran about 4.5 hours. The day included another coding challenge focused on good design (again, not

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