Turo·Backend Engineer

Turo Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Dec 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview process started normally: a recruiter call, then a one-hour Coderpad session, followed by an on-site interview.

After the on-site, I had two back-to-back video interviews, each for about thirty minutes.

The on-site itself was long—around 4 hours and 45 minutes—with sections split into shorter and longer chunks. I applied as a general backend engineer, but only during the on-site did I learn they were actually evaluating me for a growth engineer role focused on advertising metrics. That shift caught me off guard, and I remember wishing I’d been told earlier since it changed the direction of what I needed to be prepared for.

After the on-site, the final two video interviews felt more tailored to the

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