Verkada·Software Engineer

Verkada Software Engineer interview experience

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Hard

Positive

United StatesPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter screen, then I moved into two technical rounds and a hiring-manager round.

The difficulty came from the technical focus: the coding conversations centered on multithreading and socket programming, so it wasn’t just standard algorithms.

I prepared to communicate clearly through the reasoning since those topics can get complicated quickly, and the interviewers were assessing how I handled the harder parts of concurrency and networking at the same time. I completed the technical rounds, but I didn’t make it to the hiring manager discussion.

Without the final round, there wasn’t a chance to close the loop on fit and communication beyond the technical content. I didn’t

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