Block

SWE Intern Interview Experience - United States

August 14, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process consists of 3 pair-programming/coding rounds. I interviewed relatively late so they reached headcount before I could move onto the 2nd/3rd rounds. Interviewer was nice and asked questions about implementation at each step. Generally a very straightforward problem.

Questions

A basic class design question.

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