Software Engineer Interview Experience - Costa Mesa, California
Process
I completed the interview with Optimal Solutions and still no offer. Each interviewer gave good feedback, so I was confused why I didn’t get an offer.
I had:
- 2 coding screens over the phone.
Final round:
- 2 coding interviews
- 1-hour behavioral interview
- 1 system design interview
Medium LeetCode problems, mostly graphs detecting cycles, using Union-Find and DFS. Also included a binary search.
Questions
Given a list of words and a searchWord, for each prefix of searchWord, find the first three lexicographically matching words with that prefix.
Given a list of connections (edges), if you remove one edge at a time, would it create a disjoint graph?
System design: TinyURL. About 35 minutes given.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 15 interview experiences for the Anduril Software Engineer role in Costa Mesa, California.
Success Rate
Anduril's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Costa Mesa, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Anduril's Software Engineer interview process in Costa Mesa, California.
Anduril Work Experiences
- 5.0Mission Driven, Growing TeamSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeCosta Mesa, California, United StatesAugust 28, 2023Pros: Great team, very mission-driven.Cons: Growing quickly, and still learning from that.
- 4.0Great People, Tough PromotionSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeCosta Mesa, California, United StatesMarch 8, 2025Pros: Great people and company is growing.Cons: None to speak of. Kind of hard to get promoted.
- 5.0Great Mission, Heavy WorkloadSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeCosta Mesa, California, United StatesSeptember 9, 2024Pros: Great Mission Talented employees Great BenefitsCons: Growing extremely fast Heavy work load
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