Toast·Software Engineer

Toast Software Engineer interview experience

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IrelandPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview with Toast felt off in a specific way.

It didn’t resemble the more open-ended evaluation I’m used to from other engineering hiring loops; instead, it felt like there was a yes/no checklist and I was expected to land on very exact answers.

During the technical parts, I felt like the goal wasn’t to explore my thinking or show judgment through code and tradeoffs. The focus seemed to be on whether I produced a running result, and whether my system design or SQL matched a particular expected form. At times it felt like correct structure mattered more than deeper reasoning, and that made the whole thing feel more luck-dependent than

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