Tinder·Backend Engineer

Tinder Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Los Angeles, CAPosted Jun 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying online, I got an email from a recruiter and had a quick introductory chat about Tinder and the different teams.

That moved into a take-home coding challenge where I built an online multiplayer tic-tac-toe game in Node.js using socket.io. I genuinely had fun with the project, and it felt like a real way to show how I think, not just grind through abstract puzzles.

A bit later there was an online phone interview with two coding exercises, and then the onsite. At the office, everything felt upbeat and welcoming: they had free catering for lunch and dinner, and I was expected to bring my own laptop. The onsite started with two hours to develop a REST API in Node.js backed by a database system, with the

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