Coupang

Staff Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

November 4, 2024

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied through recruiter outreach.

The screening round was a 1-hour React programming round with an engineer.

Passing that led to the virtual onsite, which consisted of five 1-hour interviews:

Another React programming round
1 front-end design
1 system design
1 behavioral (leadership principles)
1 hiring manager/behavioral

Received the rejection a few days after the virtual onsite.

Questions

Build a React front end that shows a list of reviews and a review form.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Coupang Staff Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

Coupang's interview process for their Staff Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral50%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Coupang's Staff Software Engineer interview process in United States.

Coupang Work Experiences

Toxic Workplace

Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee

October 2, 2025

Pros: Nothing other than getting monthly salary and cash component is more here compared to other companies.

Cons: I have been working in the India Development Center as a Staff Software Engineer. This place is a toxic work environment with no work-life balance. Leaders regularly push employees to work over weekends, and retaliation is a common practice. Employees have no voice at all, and everything is driven fully top-down. This company cannot be compared with any true product company. Most people leave the organization in less than a year. The India team has no say in the kind of work it gets assigned and is treated as an execution arm without ownership.

Toxic Workplace

Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee

October 2, 2025

Pros: Nothing other than getting monthly salary and cash component is more here compared to other companies.

Cons: I have been working in the India Development Center as a Staff Software Engineer. This place is a toxic work environment with no work-life balance. Leaders regularly push employees to work over weekends, and retaliation is a common practice. Employees have no voice at all, and everything is driven fully top-down. This company cannot be compared with any true product company. Most people leave the organization in less than a year. The India team has no say in the kind of work it gets assigned and is treated as an execution arm without ownership.

One of the Worst Companies to Work

Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Good salary and nothing else.

Cons: Bad work - Mostly parity work Worse Culture - 12 hours work is a norm here Worst Management - The management has no idea how development works. They track everything on Excel sheet. They measure the work done by checking the size of the PR(pull request). They hire the worst managers who would not leave even one stone unturned to make your life hell.

One of the Worst Companies to Work

Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Good salary and nothing else.

Cons: Bad work - Mostly parity work Worse Culture - 12 hours work is a norm here Worst Management - The management has no idea how development works. They track everything on Excel sheet. They measure the work done by checking the size of the PR(pull request). They hire the worst managers who would not leave even one stone unturned to make your life hell.

Fast paced

Staff Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: - Fast paced and great people to learn from

Cons: - Lots of initiatives are halted due to inadequate thinking at first place - Everything is urgent

Staff Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: - Fast paced and great people to learn from

Cons: - Lots of initiatives are halted due to inadequate thinking at first place - Everything is urgent

Toxic Workplace

Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee

October 2, 2025

Pros: Nothing other than getting monthly salary and cash component is more here compared to other companies.

Cons: I have been working in the India Development Center as a Staff Software Engineer. This place is a toxic work environment with no work-life balance. Leaders regularly push employees to work over weekends, and retaliation is a common practice. Employees have no voice at all, and everything is driven fully top-down. This company cannot be compared with any true product company. Most people leave the organization in less than a year. The India team has no say in the kind of work it gets assigned and is treated as an execution arm without ownership.

1.0
Toxic Workplace
Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee
Bengaluru
October 2, 2025
Pros: Nothing other than getting monthly salary and cash component is more here compared to other companies.
Cons: I have been working in the India Development Center as a Staff Software Engineer. This place is a toxic work environment with no work-life balance. Leaders regularly push employees to work over weekends, and retaliation is a common practice. Employees have no voice at all, and everything is driven fully top-down. This company cannot be compared with any true product company. Most people leave the organization in less than a year. The India team has no say in the kind of work it gets assigned and is treated as an execution arm without ownership.

One of the Worst Companies to Work

Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Good salary and nothing else.

Cons: Bad work - Mostly parity work Worse Culture - 12 hours work is a norm here Worst Management - The management has no idea how development works. They track everything on Excel sheet. They measure the work done by checking the size of the PR(pull request). They hire the worst managers who would not leave even one stone unturned to make your life hell.

1.0
One of the Worst Companies to Work
Staff Software Engineer • Former Employee
Bengaluru
July 22, 2025
Pros: Good salary and nothing else.
Cons: Bad work - Mostly parity work Worse Culture - 12 hours work is a norm here Worst Management - The management has no idea how development works. They track everything on Excel sheet. They measure the work done by checking the size of the PR(pull request). They hire the worst managers who would not leave even one stone unturned to make your life hell.

Fast paced

Staff Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: - Fast paced and great people to learn from

Cons: - Lots of initiatives are halted due to inadequate thinking at first place - Everything is urgent

3.0
Fast paced
Staff Software Engineer • Current Employee
Seattle, WA
July 17, 2025
Pros: - Fast paced and great people to learn from
Cons: - Lots of initiatives are halted due to inadequate thinking at first place - Everything is urgent

Coupang Interview Questions

Largest Rectangle in Histogram

Find the largest rectangular area that can fit within a histogram defined by an array of bar heights. You are given an array representing the height of bars, where each bar has a width of 1.

LRU Cache

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

Linked ListsDynamic Programming

Decode String

The problem involves decoding a string that follows a specific encoding rule: k[encoded_string], where the encoded_string inside the square brackets is repeated exactly k times. Your task is to decode the string and return the decoded string.

StringsStacksRecursion

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