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Software Engineer Interview Experience

January 1, 2016
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I got the interview through a friend's referral. The process took a month in total to plan.

I had one 45-minute phone screen with a live coderpad text editor. The interviewer was not very helpful. I ran out of time, and he helped me finish my recursive version of the code in the end.

Questions

Find the number of characters that differ between two strings, where ordering matters.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 158 interview experiences for the Block Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

18%
Pass Rate

Block's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive49%
Neutral25%
Negative26%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Block's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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