Plaid·Software Engineer

Plaid Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Sep 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first technical screen was over a video call and ended up spanning two separate one-hour interviews within a roughly 2.5-hour session.

I felt like I did really well in the first interview and sent over my solution.

The second interview centered on using a specific datetime library. The question itself wasn’t described as complex, but it required solid familiarity with how that library worked, and I hadn’t used it before. To get to a correct approach I ended up relying on lots of googling to understand the details, which made the whole assessment feel a bit skewed toward familiarity with that tool rather than general programming skill.

Even with that mismatch, the interviewers were kind and professional throughout. I didn’t

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