Plaid·Software Engineer

Plaid Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Nov 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started off in a way that felt promising, then fell apart during the onsite.

At the onsite, two of the interviewers were clearly distracted—working on something else and chatting—so I had to pause multiple times just to get their attention back. When I spoke, they asked me to repeat myself, which was uncomfortable and threw off the flow.

There was also basically no room to ask questions. I only felt like I got time to ask questions during the culture-focused part, and during the other technical sessions I could barely ask anything in most of them. My onsite included coding and system design, but the system design wasn’t quite what I expected, and the structure felt

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