Plaid·Software Engineer

Plaid Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Feb 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and had a quick recruiter conversation where the pitch sounded inspiring—talking about solving challenging problems and working with great people.

After that, I was assigned a coding challenge, which I completed.

During the challenge, part of it asked me to respond to questions as a “support engineer,” so I got concerned and asked the recruiter whether I was being considered for the software engineer role I had applied for or if this was for the support role. She told me it was for support engineer and that they would move on with other candidates. I only learned that after I finished the work and asked again.

I didn’t get an offer, and honestly it felt like a bait-and-switch that wasted my time. The way the role mismatch was handled

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