Upstart·Software Engineer

Upstart Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first conversation was with a recruiter, and it immediately felt off.

The recruiter got my name wrong, then didn’t really explain what the company did or what they were specifically looking for. The questions turned into broad career discussion, but the recruiter also seemed unable to grasp how a “one man team” can function in a messy environment, so I kept having to re-explain what “full stack” meant when I didn’t have teammates to point to. Eventually they laid out the next steps: a take-home coding challenge, a virtual onsite with multiple additional interviews plus a live coding component, and then team-member interviews and references.

That lack of

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