Staff Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
June 6, 2025
Positive ExperienceNo Offer
Process
An hour-or-so phone screen with the hiring manager, then a second round of four 1-hour interviews:
- Code refactoring
- Architecture design discussion based on previous work
- Behavioral
- API coding session
Questions
Load a CSV file into a datastore of your choosing and write a REST API to do reads and filtering based on column values.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Checkr Staff Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
0%
Pass Rate
Checkr's interview process for their Staff Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Positive100%
Neutral0%
Negative0%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Checkr's Staff Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.
Checkr Work Experiences
1.0
Bad leadership
Staff Software Engineer • Current Employee
Los Angeles, CA
August 19, 2024
Pros: Good work/life balance
Overall friendly peers
Cons: Mandatory hybrid policy, you have to go to an office 2-3x/week
Top talent (high earners) laid off due to poor decision from exec team
Backfills have been primarily offshore hires
A lot of fear in culture, never know what’s coming next
5.0
Great people
Staff Software Engineer • Current Employee
September 13, 2021
Pros: Great people & managers
Great benefits
Great mission & vision
Easy to be remote
Cons: Quite a bit of tech debt
Some retention issues
CTO could be more visible
3.0
Strategy Chaos, No Growth
Engineering Manager • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
December 24, 2020
Pros: I can’t think of anything positive to say.
Cons: Company strategy changes every other month.
Promotions are non-existent.
No chance to grow.
- 1.0Bad leadershipStaff Software Engineer • Current EmployeeLos Angeles, CAAugust 19, 2024Pros: Good work/life balance Overall friendly peersCons: Mandatory hybrid policy, you have to go to an office 2-3x/week Top talent (high earners) laid off due to poor decision from exec team Backfills have been primarily offshore hires A lot of fear in culture, never know what’s coming next
- 5.0Great peopleStaff Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSeptember 13, 2021Pros: Great people & managers Great benefits Great mission & vision Easy to be remoteCons: Quite a bit of tech debt Some retention issues CTO could be more visible
- 3.0Strategy Chaos, No GrowthEngineering Manager • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesDecember 24, 2020Pros: I can’t think of anything positive to say.Cons: Company strategy changes every other month. Promotions are non-existent. No chance to grow.
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