Redfin·Software Engineer

Redfin Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

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Seattle, WAPosted Sep 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call focused on role fit, I ended up doing a homework-style problem built around a food-truck API where I produced some CLI-style reports.

A few days later I had a systems-design interview, plus time to walk through and get code-reviewed on the homework. That same final loop also included some object-oriented design thinking in pseudocode and a light paired exercise that revolved around enhancing or fixing something from the earlier work. The final pieces were a lunch conversation that stayed pretty behavioral and a hiring-manager discussion that pulled from a recent project—what I did, and the tradeoffs behind it.

Overall it felt fair and even fun. The technical content leaned practical rather than “trivia-y,” but I still felt

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