Whatnot·Software Engineer

Whatnot Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted Feb 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a phone interview where they asked basic questions about compilers and object-oriented programming.

The interviewer was nice and helpful, and at the beginning they spent about 10 to 15 minutes asking about my resume, though they weren’t too detailed about it.

The round felt like a friendly baseline assessment: not overly technical in a scary way, but still grounded in fundamentals. It was the kind of conversation where you could tell they wanted to understand how your background translated into the concepts they care about.

I didn’t receive an offer from this step, but I left it feeling like it was approachable and clearly communicated. The resume intro helped make the technical portion

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