Plaid Software Engineer interview experience

One of mine involved graphs, and the other required using max heaps. I could tell they cared about data structures, but the context made it feel less like rote LeetCode.

A couple of weeks later I did a virtual onsite. It included a coding round, a systems design round, a behavioral round, and even a coffee chat where I was able to ask questions. The onsite coding problem was a real-world working example that I could implement with a HashMap, and then there were follow-ups where the interviewer pushed into more advanced concepts. The coding portion was 90 minutes, so there were a lot of ways