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Google offer after 5 rounds Result: Offer Number of Rounds: 5 Phone screen was the expression evaluation problem. Parse nested expressions like add(2, mul(2, pow(4,5))). Stack-based parsing. Got it without hints. Onsite was 4 rounds. Two coding rounds: matrix connectivity (BFS connecting left column to right column of...

Capital One OA pass - sharing questions for everyone Result: Pending (advanced to phone screen) Number of Rounds: 1 Not bragging or anything, but I scored well enough to advance and figured I'd share the question set for people coming up. OA was 70 minutes on CodeSignal. Camera, microphone, ID verification upfront. The...

Snap phone screen - KV store with prefix sum, rejected Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 1 Phone screen was the KV store with prefix sum query problem. Standard KV operations (get/set/delete) plus a prefix sum query that returns the sum of all values where the key matches a given prefix. Trie-based approach for prefix...

Perplexity phone screen - ToDo list, rejected Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 1 ToDo list for AI problem in Python. 4 parts. Got through parts 1-2 (basic operations and dependency cascade DFS). Ran out of time on part 3. Rejection same day. Genuinely want to know how I can improve.

salesforce apparently hired zero engineers this year because of AI recruiter friend mentioned Salesforce didn't hire a single new engineer in fiscal year 2026. all headcount going to AI tools instead. not sure if this is true but curious if other companies are starting to do the same or if this is just Salesforce being...

Capital One OA - 4 questions, finished all but Q4 was messy Result: Pending Number of Rounds: 1 70 minutes CodeSignal. 4 problems. Q1 was the moon state calculation. Given initial state, season, and day, return the moon state. 8-day cycle, modulo math. Fast. Q2 was array greater/smaller count. Count elements greater vs...

Airbnb rejection - thought I nailed the booking problem, somehow didn't Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 3 Phone screen + two onsite coding rounds. Booking/split-stay problem I knew cold. Got through it cleanly. Second coding round was House Robber III, also fine. "Doesn't meet our senior hiring bar" rejection the ne...

Ramp OA - 460, missed the threshold Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 1 Progressive CodeSignal OA. Got through 2 of the 4 levels, scored 460. The 500+ threshold is apparently real. 3 YOE

OpenAI onsite - 5 rounds done, Sora SD was the key round I think Result: Pending Number of Rounds: 5 Got here through a referral from a coworker. Phone screen was a couple months back. SD + coding. SD was a payment system design and coding was the infected plants problem (matrix epidemiology, 5 parts). Finished parts 1...

Confluent phone screen - warehouse loading, rejected Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 1 Phone screen was the warehouse loading problem. DP/backtracking approach. Didn't solve it in time. Rejection 2 days later.

Affirm rejection - loan hierarchy, 15 mins over, no feedback Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 1 Phone screen was the loan/parent hierarchy problem. The tree traversal itself isn't hard. The problem has layers of business rules you have to parse carefully before writing anything. Finished it working. 15 minutes over t...

Ramp onsite - 4 rounds done, architecture round had a surprise SD Result: Pending Number of Rounds: 4 Got through the phone screen 3 weeks ago and moved to onsite last week. Recruiter said to read any prep materials they sent carefully. The format is different from most places. Coding round was practical. Flight data a...

Databricks CIDR phone screen - rejection and some thoughts on the interview Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 1 Phone screen was CIDR block IP matching. Binary prefix matching, ordered rule processing. Got it working but the HM kept interrupting my explanation before I could finish. Heard back in a week. Rejected. Hon...

Affirm phone screen - fraud detection, pending Result: Pending Number of Rounds: 1 Phone screen was the fraud detection problem. Part 1: debug existing code that processes customer events with PII data (address, email, SSN). Part 2: implement detection logic to flag fraud events. Not algorithmic. Just careful JSON and...

squarepoint HR silence after final round is driving me insane Did my final round 3 weeks ago. HR said results within a week. Emailed once. Nothing. Apparently this is just what they do. You go through a 4-month process. OA, four phone screens, every Python concept imaginable. And then you just silently boil over waitin...