Software Engineer · Mid-Level · Phone Screen
San Francisco Bay AreaMay 15, 2026Phone ScreenCoding, System Design6/10 difficulty
The phone screen was an hour long, with half the time spent on coding and the other half on system design. I finished the coding portion in about 10 minutes, and the rest of the time was spent on the system design question. **Coding Question:** I was given two...
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San Francisco Bay Area
Feb 15, 2026
Onsite
Coding
7/10 difficulty
I had an onsite interview where I was asked to write a function that identifies the admin user within a company's camera system. The prompt stated that the company is a Verkada customer and has only one admin user with access to all cameras. I was given a nest...
San Francisco Bay Area
Feb 15, 2026
Onsite
Multiple Types
7/10 difficulty
The interview process consisted of a phone screen and an onsite interview. **Phone Screen:** Before the phone screen, the HR representative sent environment setup instructions. I had to set up my GitHub account and install Docker and PyCharm locally. The inter...
San Francisco Bay Area
Jan 15, 2026
Phone Screen
Coding, System Design
6/10 difficulty
During the phone screen, I spent half the time on a coding question and the other half on a system design question. The coding question was LeetCode 369 (Plus One Linked List). The system design question was: Assume there are 1 million devices, each sending a...
San Francisco Bay Area
Jan 15, 2026
Phone Screen
Multiple Types
3/10 difficulty
I spoke with a recruiter and immediately received an invitation for a technical phone screen without even submitting a resume, which makes me think they're hiring aggressively. The interviewer spoke very slowly. We started with system design, and by the time t...
San Francisco Bay Area
Jan 15, 2026
Onsite
Multiple Types
6/10 difficulty
My interview process consisted of three rounds. First, I had an HR screening where I was asked standard questions about why I wanted to work at the company and my job search timeline. A week later, I had a phone screen which focused on React coding. I had to i...
San Francisco Bay Area
Dec 31, 2025
Recruiter Screen
Behavioral
3/10 difficulty
The recruiter asked me the following questions: 1. Introduce yourself. 2. Why do you want to work at Verkada? 3. Describe a past project that you are proud of. 4. Have you taken any frontend/backend courses in school? What did you learn, and what was the most...
San Francisco Bay Area
Dec 15, 2025
Phone Screen
Coding
6/10 difficulty
I had a phone screen consisting of two coding questions. Most interview experiences I read mentioned one coding question and one system design question, but I got two coding questions. I suspect I was too slow to get to the system design question. **Question 1...
San Francisco Bay Area
Nov 1, 2025
Phone Screen
Multiple Types
7/10 difficulty
For the coding question, I was given an array of numbers and had to divide it into two parts such that the absolute difference between the sums of the two parts is minimized. I needed to return this minimum difference. For example, given [2, 3, 10, 7, 5], the...