Square·Software Engineer

Square Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Jul 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I joined the process with a fairly standard structure at first: a technical round where I worked in a collaborative online IDE with an interviewer evaluating things like how I communicated and collaborated, plus requirements analysis and my code fluency.

After that, the onsite phase came next. It included pair programming sessions, system design work, and a past technical design question, plus a conversation with the hiring manager.

The onsite itself actually went well. The interviewers were easy to talk to, the questions felt fairly standard and not overly brutal, and the most helpful detail was that they shared the system design prompt before the onsite so I could prepare. Even with all of that, what surprised me was how the process got strange after the onsite.

After I thought I’d crossed the main hurdle, I still had additional

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