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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

January 1, 2025
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had a recruiter call, then a phone screen, which was supposed to lead to an onsite interview (that I didn't make it to).

Chime is known to ask easy to medium questions in phone screens. However, I was hit by an extremely difficult question for a screen call. I was asked to design a game that was very complicated in terms of its rules. The interviewer himself wasn't able to clearly explain it to me, and I was naive not to ask him to change the question. If you don't truly understand or haven't played this game before, you won't be able to comprehend or code it. It was like a complicated Chinese game. I thought it was close to Tic-Tac-Toe, but it was far from it.

Questions

Code game logic/rules - not Tic-Tac-Toe.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 11 interview experiences for the Chime Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

27%
Pass Rate

Chime's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive55%
Neutral9%
Negative36%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Chime's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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