This process started with an online assessment delivered through Karat. I was immediately put into a LeetCode-style medium challenge set—what stuck with me was that the problems heavily leaned on matrices, with implementation being the core work. There wasn’t a lot of room for wandering; I needed to focus on actually building the solution.
Time became the problem. I completed two of the questions, but I ran out of time before I could finish everything. What made it harder than it should’ve been was the way the interviewer spent a disproportionate amount of time explaining and asking questions that felt trivial rather than useful, so I had less time to write code than I expected. By the time I got to the next question, I felt squeezed.
10 months ago
Average Positive United States
A recruiter reached out and the whole process moved along pretty quickly—about a few weeks end to end. I started with a standard code screen, then later I did an onsite in Mountain View. The hiring manager stood out to me as genuinely sharp, and the recruiter interaction was the kind that felt caring rather than transactional; they stayed pleasant and even shared constructive feedback about how the interviews went.
The coding parts followed a pretty typical pattern for this kind of process, but what I remember most was the tone. Everything felt organized, and I wasn’t left wondering what was going on behind the scenes. I didn’t end up with an offer, but I walked away feeling like I’d been taken seriously and treated like my career actually mattered, which honestly was a relief.
> 1 year
Difficult Negative United States
My recruiter chat was friendly, and after that I got a 45-minute live coding interview with an engineer. The problem was a LeetCode-style medium-hard …
> 1 year
Difficult Negative United States
I had a pretty short intro sequence—about 30 minutes with a recruiter—then I jumped into a one-hour technical screen. The thing that really surprised …
> 1 year
Easy Positive San Francisco, CA
The recruiter outreach started it off, and then the process moved through an initial screen and a technical interview using a third-party platform. On…
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