Verkada·Software Engineer

Verkada Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop began with an “OA” step, followed by a recruiter chat, then a technical screen.

I’d interviewed at several big tech companies before and had received multiple offers, so I had a solid baseline for what a coding interview should feel like.

This screen was one of the worst experiences I’d had. The interviewer didn’t introduce themself, and the tone felt dismissive from the start. When I was asked to introduce myself, it felt like they weren’t engaged, and during the coding portion they kept telling me I was moving in the correct direction without explaining why my approach was wrong. When I tried an alternative solution, they effectively pushed me back to the earlier

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