Plaid·Software Engineer

Plaid Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted May 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and got an interview about two weeks later.

The process included a coding challenge, then I went through one phone interview followed by an on-site.

On the phone screen, the questions leaned heavily into algorithms and implementation, with additional attention to efficiency and code quality like cleanliness. The on-site had a longer implementation problem that felt similar to what I saw on the phone side, and it also included a systems design interview on a whiteboard.

The whole thing felt smooth and pretty normal as far as interviews go. I didn’t get an offer, but the experience itself didn’t feel chaotic—it was just a clear set of

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