Square Software Engineer interview experience

The onsite focused heavily on technical past experience and included systems design, plus additional coding rounds with developers from different teams.

The whole thing was long—roughly six hours total—and they built in a couple of breaks, so it didn’t feel like nonstop pressure. Even so, by the end the process felt like a broad attempt to evaluate a lot at once: how I’d explain past work, how I’d approach system design concepts, and how I’d handle multiple coding tasks.

Ultimately I didn’t get the offer. My lingering feeling was that the process was comprehensive, but it didn’t translate