Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York
Process
There is a technical round, a hiring manager screen, then a three-round onsite with system design and a debugging problem. The questions are not too LeetCode like but do have an algorithmic component.
The technical people I spoke to were frankly not qualified to deliver the interviews they were delivering. The company puts forth values of openness, collaboration, and honesty, but then pairs you with one rude and dismissive interviewer, and another panel where you are told "you can ask questions but we are not going to respond usefully"
Avoid this place. They have no clue what is going on nor do they have any idea how to evaluate technical skill
Questions
find bugs in a piece of Python code
design a small API
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Braze Software Engineer role in New York, New York.
Success Rate
Braze's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in New York, New York is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Braze's Software Engineer interview process in New York, New York.
Braze Work Experiences
- 1.0horrible engineer orgSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeNew York, New YorkJune 23, 2019Pros: Unlimited vacation time Small teams, total ~40 devsCons: Unrealistic OKRs, only ~50 achievable goals Unhealthy eng. org that it doesn't focus on team work but individual work Super difficult local dev with Ruby & Sidekiq, hard for testing correctness Team decision making not transparent to individuals, team lead decides Not willing to take risks by certain team leads and blame individuals for small mistakes
- 4.0Good company but very risk averseSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeNew York, New YorkAugust 2, 2025Pros: Product team is strong Customers love the productCons: - Do not take risks - Codebase has lots of bandaids and no major initiative to address the architecture as a whole.
- 1.0Horrible engineering culture, messy management in projectsSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeNew York, New YorkAugust 9, 2020Pros: They received lots of funding while growing the business.Cons: There were huge growing pains on growing and expansion without a good engineering culture. There was horrible project management with unrealistic priorities and timeline. There was terrible teamwork and throwing frontend projects to backend developers.
