This guide draws on 10 first-hand interview accounts from Hacker News and Wall Street Oasis. Candidates describe about 1 round on average, most often technical interviews, a phone screen and behavioral interviews.
These 10 writeups cover sales, software engineering roles. All of them were posted under a forum handle, so we could not verify the authors’ identities.
unknown. 1 round. Shared by tptacek on hn, 2013-02-23
1Technical interviewTechnicalHeavily focused on concurrency and distributed systems questions.Covered: Concurrency, Distributed systems
Role not stated
Received an offer
New grad. 1 round. Shared by MathMonkeyMan on hn, 2021-09-08
1Campus interviewTechnicalRecruited via a campus job fair. Interviewers asked about standardized test scores.Covered: Academic background
Frontend Engineer
Not selected
unknown. 1 round. Shared by decafninja on hn, 2020-07-21
1Technical interviewTechnicalLearned about the in-house JavaScript UI framework. Rejected after struggling with a binary-tree algorithm problem.Covered: Binary trees, Algorithms, JavaScript
Role not stated
Received an offer
New grad. 2 rounds. Shared by ZainRiz on hn, 2020-07-08
1Career fair chatPhone screenInformal conversation at a campus booth led to an invitation to interview.
2On-campus loopTechnicalFull interview loop on campus where the candidate openly asked for correct answers after missing questions.Covered: Problem solving
Role not stated
Outcome not shared
unknown. 1 round. Shared by daeken on hn, 2010-11-30
1OnsiteTechnicalOnsite under NDA that the candidate felt used many poor interviewing techniques.
Role not stated
Not selected
unknown. 1 round. Shared by boring_twenties on hn, 2019-12-20
1Phone screenPhone screenInterviewer account of a poor screen where the rejection email went out before the candidate's questions.
Role not stated
Received an offer
unknown, New York, NY. 2 rounds. Shared by paxunix on hn, 2014-08-26
1Morning team interviewsTechnicalSet of interviews with the first team, which decided to make an offer by early afternoon.
2Afternoon team interviewsTechnicalCancelled because the offer was already being made.
Software Engineer
Received an offer
New grad. 1 round. Shared by ivankirigin on hn, 2007-09-18
1Final interviewBehavioralSocially demanding final round, including why the candidate would not just start a company.Covered: Career goals, Entrepreneurial interest
1Phone interviewPhone screenFifteen-minute call. Candidate declined the in-person round as the role was sales-focused.Covered: Role overview, Why Bloomberg, Terminal importance
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This guide draws on 10 first-hand interview accounts from Hacker News and Wall Street Oasis. Candidates describe about 1 round on average, most often technical interviews, a phone screen and behavioral interviews.
These guides summarize public, first-hand interview experiences shared by candidates. They describe the shape of each loop and the topics that came up, not a leaked question bank, and every experience links back to its original source. Processes change often. Treat this as directional prep, not a script.