Squarespace·Software Engineer

Squarespace Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Mar 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied for a software engineering role on the backend/server side, and I got a technical screening first.

The assignment was to write an internet URL cache in Java, and I essentially recreated something very similar to LinkedHashMap.

After that, they emailed me confirmation in about a week and scheduled a phone interview. In that call, they seemed to expect knowledge beyond basic coding—distributed system and synchronization concepts in Java, along with more standard Java topics like common data structures, what each one does, and their time complexity, plus object-oriented programming. The phone interview was around forty-five minutes. Even with the prep I did, I didn’t end up advancing to an

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