Upstart·Software Engineer

Upstart Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

Los Angeles, CAPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the recruiter stage, I had a technical coding screen with two medium-style LeetCode problems.

What stood out was that it wasn’t just “solve and move on”—there was follow-up after each question, and the interviewer pushed on my reasoning. From there, the next step was an onsite with a pretty classic mix: systems design, a hiring-manager/behavioral conversation, and a product development-focused discussion.

In the onsite, I went through a set of five rounds that all felt tightly connected. I had a coding challenge and an internal question, then a systems design round where the prompt was to design a chess game. There was also a project-style interview where I had to code out something

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