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Phone Screen on Construct Quad Tree

Interviewed: Dec 2026

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Anthropic L6 Infra SWE backend interview

Interviewed: Jun 2026

I got the question within time (including followup) and had some time at the end for randomly chatting with the interviewer and asking questions about Anthropic. Interviewer seemed...

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OpenAI Senior SWE

Interviewed: May 2026

Passed phone screens and now doing onsite. Overall good!

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Google Forward Deployed Engineer Onsite

Interviewed: May 2026

I interviewed for an L4 SWE role at Google last spring. The coding round was 45 minutes on Google Meet with a shared Google Doc — no IDE, no autocomplete. After a quick intro, the...

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Anthropic Phone Screen & Onsite

Interviewed: Apr 2026

I highly recommend going through all the Anthropic tagged questions on this site!

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OpenAI phone screen system coding 75 mins

Interviewed: Apr 2026

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Software Engineer

Interviewed: Apr 2026

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Doordash VO Rejection Experience

Interviewed: Apr 2026

Went through a virtual onsite with four rounds: system design, coding, incident debug, and HM behavioral. I felt underprepared on some deeper points in the system design round. The...

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Phone screen

Interviewed: Apr 2026

Interviewer was very relaxed and made it comfortable 10 min behavioural in the beginnning How to handle conflicts? How do you bring people to come together towards a discussion?

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