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Scale Software Engineer interview experience

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San Francisco, CAPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter recruiting call, I ended up doing an online assessment that felt very engineering/practical rather than pure algorithms.

The work centered on building a task scheduler: first a basic scheduling service that returned the next best task, then adding task dependencies, and finally dealing with scaling and edge cases. It pushed me to think about data structures and relationships, especially around how to find the highest priority item and how to map dependencies between things, and I remember practicing incremental development because the problem broke down nicely into steps.

Once I passed the OA, I had a 60-minute live coding interview. The core focus was again implementing a task prioritization system where

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