Toast·Software Engineer

Toast Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Dublin, DublinPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter phone call, I moved into a technical screen about a week later.

The recruiter call was mostly a quick resume and role fit discussion, and then they laid out what would come next.

My technical round was a HackerRank-style DSA problem. I worked through one coding question and then the conversation shifted into more standard STAR-style behavioral prompts tied back to my project experience. The whole session felt conversational rather than combative, and the interviewers were friendly and engaged, like they were trying to follow my reasoning, not just check boxes.

Overall it felt like a pretty standard, average-difficulty loop—recruiter intro, one coding

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