Block

SWE Intern Interview Experience - United States

August 11, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Got an OA, then a technical interview on building a social media network with data structures. Had to feature things like likes and comments, and finding best friends. This was pointed towards hash maps.

Questions

Building a social media network with data structures.

It had to feature things like likes and comments, and finding best friends, which pointed towards hash maps.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Block SWE Intern role in United States.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

Block's interview process for their SWE Intern roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive75%

Neutral25%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Block's SWE Intern interview process in United States.

Block Interview Questions

Rotating the Box

Medium

Simulate a box tilting to the right, causing stones to fall until they hit obstacles or the floor. Re-arrange the characters in a given grid to reflect the resulting state of the box.

ArraysTwo Pointers

Squirrel Simulation

Medium

Imagine a squirrel trying to collect nuts efficiently. Find the minimum distance the squirrel must travel to collect all nuts and bring them to a tree, given the locations of the squirrel, tree, and nuts.

ArraysGreedy Algorithms

Word Break

Medium

Determine if a given string can be segmented into a space-separated sequence of words from a dictionary. You are given a string and a dictionary of words; can you break the string down using words from the dictionary?

ArraysStringsDynamic Programming