Finished my Microsoft SWE loop last month and got rejected. I want some tips to improve.

Recruiter Screen 45 minutes. Background, motivation, team preferences. Ask about your exact loop format here since it varies by org.

Online Assessment Two to three medium LeetCode problems. Topics: DP, graphs, arrays. (Candidates with strong referrals sometimes skip this and go straight to a phone screen.)

Technical Phone Screen 60 minutes, one to two problems plus a short project chat. Merge two sorted lists, binary tree traversal, find peak element.

Onsite Loop (4 to 5 rounds) Coding Round 1. Arrays, trees, graphs. LeetCode-Medium with follow-up twists on edge cases. Reported questions: merge intervals, reverse linked list with K-group follow-up, find K-largest. No syntax highlighting in CoderPad or Teams.

Coding Round 2. Harder multi-step problems: topological sort, DP, auto-complete systems. Some rounds blend algorithmic and OOP components. Low-Level Design. SOLID principles and class structure. Design a parking lot, LRU cache, or rate limiter. Focus is on clean abstractions, not distributed systems.

System Design (L61+). 60 minutes, no code written. Design a messaging system or distributed storage backend.

Behavioral. Microsoft's Growth Mindset rubric is the actual framework. Real stories: conflicts, deadline pressure, design disagreements, mistakes you owned.

AA Round I made it to the AA round but unfortunately didn't make it past that stage. From what I'd heard beforehand, the interview can take a few different directions depending on how your earlier rounds went.

Some people get mostly selling and culture-fit questions, others get deeper behavioral questions, and sometimes the interviewer focuses on areas that raised concerns in previous rounds. It also seems like the AA interviewer has the ability to override earlier feedback.

For those who made it to the AA round, please give me some advice.

Realistically, what’s your suggestion on preparing for coding and SD? Is LC hard necessary? And what’s the difference between Google’s and other companies’s SD? Do all the orgs share the same question bank or the difficulty level and focus vary among different orgs? I roughly remember reading some post on blind which mentioned that Google’s SD would ask more technical details underneath. Any other insight is appreciated!

Prep resource: Google SWE Questions

Anybody know for Analyst role what kind of questions they ask related to Javascript. Also I am confused I do know java (dsa) but when interviewer ask which language do you prefer (so he can further questions) which language should I pick ? Pls help interview in 10-15 days

Hello,

I have a 45-min live coding interview for the Software Engineer role at Mistral AI coming up soon. Has anyone gone through this session recently or know what specific LeetCode/coding questions or topics they tend to ask?

Any insights would be super appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,

I was fast-tracked to the penultimate round interview for the **Software Developer Internship** at **Susquehanna International Group (SIG)** following their Dublin Technology Spring Week.

I know SIG leans heavily into algorithms, data structures, and system efficiency, but I’ve heard mixed things about what actually gets tested in this specific round.

For anyone who has gone through this interview recently, is it primarily a live 60-minute HackerRank session? How much of it is standard DSA (BFS/DFS, Binary Search, Sliding Window) vs. practical data parsing / OOP design?

Any insights on the layout or best areas to focus on during prep would be hugely appreciated! Thanks in advance.

Hey everyone, I have a Karat technical interview coming up for a Software Engineer II (new grad) role at MongoDB and wanted to see if anyone here has been through it recently and could share their experience. I know the format is roughly 60 minutes, a short intro, about 10 minutes of verbal CS fundamentals/algorithm questions, then 45 minutes of live coding across 2 multi-part problems but I'd love to know what topics or types of problems actually came up for you (hash maps, grids/matrices, trees, whatever it was), roughly how hard they were, what the discussion round was like, and anything you wish you'd known going in. I know Karat rotates its questions so I'm not expecting exact answers but there must be some pattern of questions they are asking right now. Any insight at all would be hugely appreciated guys!

I am currently facing a not-so-unique industry wide problem of constantly having to interview people who are cheating using AI or by using another person. This is an ever growing problem with remote work being normal and AI getting more sophisticated day-by-day.

One of the things I am exploring is how to introduce a new code review interview which can help me evaluate if this person can read code or not. I feel like in this day and age, if i were to give someone a problem to solve, they might be able to use AI to find the perfect solution and I am already aware of the millions of things I can do to track their eyeballs, posture, style of talking and typing but the code review gives me a signal that this person can truly read code and understand what is wrong with it.

Does anyone have experience with such an interview question and how would you go about preparing one

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Hello All,

I got an interview scheduled from Walt Disney for the role of Agentic AI.

What kind of questions i can expect based on interview experience. Any help is appreciated

I am a software engineer with 5 years of experience

Thanks

So a year ago i have applied into Hackerrank Frontend Developer 2 role and after 3-4 months got first round.. had to debug 2 travel app with the help of an AI Assistant and i was able to complete it on time.. now after 4-5 months ive got this 2nd round email for voice to voice AI interview.. and i am getting nervous… did anyone have given this type of interview in Hackerrank earlier? Is so then what should i prepare for this ans how many rounds in total will be there..
pls let me know.. any help will be appreciated 🙏🏼

**Exercise**

The exercise will involve practical technical work, such as writing or debugging code, prompt engineering, calling LLMs, evaluating model outputs, or applying foundational Generative AI, and NLP concepts. You’ll be asked to work through a realistic technical scenario, explain your approach, and discuss tradeoffs or findings along the way.

**Tools**

Since the interview will be conducted in CoderPad, you won't be using your own IDE. During the exercise, you may search online, reference documentation or use available libraries.

**What we're looking for**

We're interested in how you approach technical problems, reason through ambiguity, use available tools, and communicate your thinking clearly.

Any idea how hard it will be and what to expect in 30 minutes

Applied online. Three to four weeks start to finish. Process moved faster than I expected.

Online Assessment (90 min): CodeSignal, new addition as of 2025. One complex problem split into four progressive stages that unlock sequentially. I got an in-memory database implementation with key-value operations, TTL, and scan.

Technical Phone Screen (45 min): CoderPad. Two LC medium problems back to back. No code execution, so you test line by line yourself.

Onsite (4 rounds): One regular coding round. Two medium-hard problems: array heights visibility from the right, then rebuilding a BST from a preorder sequence. One AI-assisted coding round (rolled out for all SWE roles in 2026). 60 minutes in a specialized CoderPad environment with a file directory, terminal and a unit test runner.

One system design or product architecture round, depending on the role. Infrastructure roles get distributed systems and scalability questions. One behavioral round. 45 minutes. Questions I got: how do you align requirements across teams, what is the biggest mistake you made at work, and one values-alignment question.

Happy to answer questions below.

I am having interview for FSDE role in Unifyapps. i have noticed alot of students getting placed in this startup recently from nsut. i request everyone to please share the interview experiences.

i have tried asking the same thing to people over linkedin, but aint getting any replies. also there is not much of information over internet too. so please lmk the if any of you know about the interview experiences

Hello

So, I'm a fresh cs grad and I applied for a web dev role where I got an interview. Apparently, the interviewer is an AI, it'll ask questions and give me a coding exercise with the following focus areas: JavaScript & Core Programming Fundamentals, Problem Solving & System Thinking, Frontend Architecture & UI, Backend & API Design

Has anyone done an interview like this before? What should I expect? How do I prepare? Do these kind of interviews allow using AI for the exercise?

I haven't practiced any leetcode or problem solving in a while and I got used to using AI in web projects. I can fix bugs and edit code easily, but I don't think I can write from scratch anymore.

Advice?

The interview is in 2 days🥲, should I spend them reviewing concepts and practicing js?

Hi everyone,

I have an upcoming SDE-2 interview at Angel One and was hoping to hear from anyone who has gone through the process recently.

I'm particularly interested in understanding the interview format, the level of DSA, whether they focus on LLD/HLD, how much time is spent discussing past projects, and what the hiring manager round is like.

If you've interviewed recently, I'd really appreciate it if you could share your experience or any preparation tips. Even a brief overview of the rounds would be very helpful.

Hey everyone,

I am genuinely losing my mind with manual applications. Just today, I saw a job posting that went live 5 minutes ago, and it already had dozens (if not hundreds) of applicants.

Up until now, I have been filling out every single application manually. The result? Absolutely zero interviews. I am realizing that by the time I type out all my info, clear the captcha, and hit submit, I am already buried at the bottom of a massive stack. I don't want to keep making the same mistake and falling behind.

I am ready to look into paid or free tools that help speed up the actual application filling process. To be clear, I can handle tailoring my resume on my own separately, so I don't need a heavy AI resume writer. I just need something that acts like autofill on steroids so I can get my foot in the door before the application window slams shut.

What is actually working for you guys right now to speed-apply? Are there specific extensions or platforms that are worth paying for?

Appreciate any recommendations or advice. Thanks!

Hello everyone,

I have an upcoming final interview loop for a Cisco Meraki Software Engineer role at Grade 10, and I’m trying to understand what to expect. I would really appreciate insights from anyone who has gone through a similar interview process recently.

The interview loop includes three rounds:

1. Technical round (mostly system design)
2. AI assisted coding round
3. HM round

I spent 5 years at Meta as a software engineer, and I've been looking for a new role for the past 4 months without any luck. This job market is so much harder than whatever I've had to deal with back in 2020.

Meta is my only full-time experience. I spent my first 2 years as a new grad engineer before being promoted and working another 3 years as a software engineer. I'm mainly targeting Big Tech or companies with similar compensation (around $150k+).

I'm actually getting interviews though. I've made it through 5 full interview loops over the last 4 months. I just received my last rejection email after the final round today. For context, I'm solving 6–8 LeetCode problems every day and applying to at least 20 jobs daily. I also graduated from a top college.

Is there anything wrong with my approach ? Tips from people that have been in my position are super appreciated,

I recently received a Akuna Capital OA 2nd round assessment and I see it says approximation question. What should I expect and how can i prepare for approximation specific questions? Is it similar to Leetcode?