San Francisco Bay AreaJan 22, 2026Phone ScreenMultiple Types7/10 difficulty
The interviewer had a friendly tone. The first question was a simulation problem representing a tournament bracket where numbers represented ranks (smaller is better). Given an input array, we had to simulate the rounds, keeping the smaller rank at each match,...
The first round was a phone screen. I was asked to output the results of a tournament given an array of player ranks and the rules for determining wins based on rank. This was an open-ended question, and at the end, I was asked some follow-up questions about q...
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San Francisco Bay Area
Jan 22, 2026
Full Journey
Multiple Types
4/10 difficulty
The first round was an online assessment for data science/analysis roles for an internship. I was given training sentences and asked to write two functions: a training function and a predictor function. The predictor function should take a word as input and ou...
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San Francisco Bay Area
Jan 22, 2026
Phone Screen
Multiple Types
8/10 difficulty
The technical phone interview covered Python and SQL. 1. **SQL Questions:** I was asked two SQL questions, both rated as Hard. It's crucial to have a strong understanding of SQL window functions and various patterns. Knowing the syntax is insufficient; practic...
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New York, NY, US
Jan 22, 2026
Phone Screen
Behavioral
5/10 difficulty
I applied through an online portal and received a quick invitation for an interview. The role was for a new graduate in security. The interviewer, who had a background in CS and security, started by introducing the company. Then, I was asked to introduce mysel...
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Seattle, WA, US
Jan 22, 2026
Online Assessment
Multiple Types
4/10 difficulty
This post details my experience with the Amazon SDE1 Work Simulation online assessment, which was divided into three modules. Each module contained multiple scenarios focused on different aspects of software development. **Module 1: Project Alert / API design,...
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Seattle, WA, US
Jan 22, 2026
Full Journey
Multiple Types
7/10 difficulty
The interview process was divided into a phone screen and a 4-round onsite. **Phone Screen:** I was asked to merge product categories. Given tuples representing two products in the same category, with transitivity, I needed to find the final number of categori...
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San Francisco Bay Area
Jan 22, 2026
Full Journey
Multiple Types
4/10 difficulty
I applied through the company website in February and received an interview invitation from a Director about a week later. The first round was a conversation with the Director, primarily discussing my research background and my analysis and solutions for commo...
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San Francisco Bay Area
Jan 22, 2026
Onsite
Multiple Types
7/10 difficulty
The interview was for an E4 level Software Engineer position at Meta. I experienced the following rounds: **Coding:** The coding questions involved LeetCode 17 with a variation and Leetcode 329. **System Design (SD):** I was asked to design Instagram, focusing...
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San Francisco Bay Area
Jan 22, 2026
Full Journey
Multiple Types
7/10 difficulty
The Online Assessment (OA) was from the topic bank and was from a while ago. My recruiter waived the phone screen, so I proceeded directly to the Virtual Onsite (VO) rounds. There were a total of 4 VO rounds. The first was an AI-Enabled System Design round. Al...