Tinder·Backend Engineer

Tinder Backend Engineer interview experience

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

The first round was a phone interview where we talked through how I’d design a website for selling tickets, including how I’d think about scaling.

We also touched on how to handle atomic operations, and it was framed like a practical systems discussion rather than a trick question.

Later I went onsite for several technical interviews—four separate sessions—with different styles. One round was whiteboard coding, and the others were hands-on coding on a computer. I remember being a little uneasy about JavaScript syntax, so I used Python without it becoming an issue, and the questions still flowed.

After that, I came back for an additional quick interview with the CTO. The overall experience felt straightforward and even on the easy

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