SentinelOne·Software Engineer

SentinelOne Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Czech RepublicPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My very first interview was a live, LeetCode-like problem-solving exercise.

Even though I’d solved lots of similar problems before, this one was different enough that the solution approach felt like it required a very specific pattern I hadn’t seen.

The interviewer even framed it in a way that implied the optimal method was something I should have encountered previously. On top of that, the optimizations were tricky—there was a narrow path to the best solution, and it wasn’t obvious how to get there from the problem itself.

I didn’t move forward, and I was genuinely unhappy with the direction the interview took. It felt like my broader role-relevant skills and

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