Toast·Software Engineer

Toast Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

CanadaPosted Jul 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My technical interview revolved around a simple prompt, and I focused on explaining my thinking as I worked through the solution.

In the round, I got a question about strings. I described my approach clearly, finished the work, and we discussed complexity together. I double-checked my answer after the interview and it was correct.

Even with that, I still received a rejection email. Separately, there was also a stock-buy-and-sell style DSA coding problem in my experience—track a minimum so far and compute maximum profit as you go—so the work itself wasn’t the hardest part. The decision outcome didn’t align with how I expected things to be judged, at least based on how the interaction went.

I didn’t get an offer, and

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