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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

August 1, 2017
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I completed two technical phone screens and was then invited onsite.

This is a typical process for larger tech companies.

The onsite interview felt rather cold and robotic. Some interviewers were engaged, while others were not at all.

One interviewer looked at his Apple Watch the entire time and even answered a phone call during my interview. Additionally, two of the three technical interviewers were neither very collaborative nor friendly.

Overall, the company felt too corporate and impersonal for my taste, and I would not interview with them again.

Questions

Typical LeetCode questions, things like:

  • Topological Sort
  • LRU Cache

etc.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 59 interview experiences for the Block Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

25%
Pass Rate

Block's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive56%
Neutral20%
Negative24%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Block's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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