EvenUp

Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience

November 23, 2022

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days.

The interview process is very long, but the interviewers made a good impression; there were no gotcha questions. There were 6 stages:

An overview Meeting with the VP of engineering
Tech Screening (simple live coding challenge)
Coding challenge (another live coding challenge)
System Design Interview
Meeting with the Data Science team (mostly questions about what interactions I had with the DS team, and what data-related tools I have experience with)
Behavioural interview with Product Managers
Behavioural interview with the CEO

Questions

Tech screening was a task to generate all possible permutations given a set of rules.

Main coding challenge: graph traversal problem (DFS or BFS is enough).

System design: Design an online game of Tic-Tac-Toe.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the EvenUp Senior Software Engineer role.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

EvenUp's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive33%

Neutral0%

Negative67%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for EvenUp's Senior Software Engineer interview process.

EvenUp Work Experiences

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Pros: The term "hyper growth" is overused, but in this case it is absolutely true and backed up by hard numbers. With that comes a ton of interesting problems to solve, and leaders actively give people opportunities to work on problems that they want. I feel comfortable to take risks and challenge myself here.

Cons: Start-up problems come with fuzzy boundaries, and if the problems were easy, someone else would've solved them already. Colleagues are super friendly and helpful, but don't expect hand-holding every step of the way. Sometimes you gotta go the extra mile to help the team win.

Rocketship start-up with fantastic engineering culture

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: The term "hyper growth" is overused, but in this case it is absolutely true and backed up by hard numbers. With that comes a ton of interesting problems to solve, and leaders actively give people opportunities to work on problems that they want. I feel comfortable to take risks and challenge myself here.

Cons: Start-up problems come with fuzzy boundaries, and if the problems were easy, someone else would've solved them already. Colleagues are super friendly and helpful, but don't expect hand-holding every step of the way. Sometimes you gotta go the extra mile to help the team win.

Very fast moving, lots of opportunity paired with high expectations

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September 4, 2025

Pros: - Interesting tech - Little or no stagnancy

Cons: - High expectations and frequent crunch periods

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Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

September 4, 2025

Pros: - Interesting tech - Little or no stagnancy

Cons: - High expectations and frequent crunch periods

Fast and exciting startup, with excellent team culture!

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Pros: - An amazing team to work with. Despite being a fully remote team, people are always super willing to pair up and help tackle a problem. - Everyone has a voice and is given room to grow and tackle problems and technologies that matter to them. - As a startup, there are few layers of bureaucracy, so communication from upper management to individual contributors is communicated quickly and is very responsive to feedback and suggestions. - Compensation is also generous.

Cons: - Projects and technology move a little too fast sometimes, causing tech debt to accumulate - Workload on projects can get hectic as deadlines approach - Still some growing pains as the company transitions away from a traditional start-up to a more established company, requiring processes to be better established.

Fast and exciting startup, with excellent team culture!

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Pros: - An amazing team to work with. Despite being a fully remote team, people are always super willing to pair up and help tackle a problem. - Everyone has a voice and is given room to grow and tackle problems and technologies that matter to them. - As a startup, there are few layers of bureaucracy, so communication from upper management to individual contributors is communicated quickly and is very responsive to feedback and suggestions. - Compensation is also generous.

Cons: - Projects and technology move a little too fast sometimes, causing tech debt to accumulate - Workload on projects can get hectic as deadlines approach - Still some growing pains as the company transitions away from a traditional start-up to a more established company, requiring processes to be better established.

Rocketship start-up with fantastic engineering culture

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: The term "hyper growth" is overused, but in this case it is absolutely true and backed up by hard numbers. With that comes a ton of interesting problems to solve, and leaders actively give people opportunities to work on problems that they want. I feel comfortable to take risks and challenge myself here.

Cons: Start-up problems come with fuzzy boundaries, and if the problems were easy, someone else would've solved them already. Colleagues are super friendly and helpful, but don't expect hand-holding every step of the way. Sometimes you gotta go the extra mile to help the team win.

5.0
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Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
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Pros: The term "hyper growth" is overused, but in this case it is absolutely true and backed up by hard numbers. With that comes a ton of interesting problems to solve, and leaders actively give people opportunities to work on problems that they want. I feel comfortable to take risks and challenge myself here.
Cons: Start-up problems come with fuzzy boundaries, and if the problems were easy, someone else would've solved them already. Colleagues are super friendly and helpful, but don't expect hand-holding every step of the way. Sometimes you gotta go the extra mile to help the team win.

Very fast moving, lots of opportunity paired with high expectations

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

September 4, 2025

Pros: - Interesting tech - Little or no stagnancy

Cons: - High expectations and frequent crunch periods

4.0
Very fast moving, lots of opportunity paired with high expectations
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
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September 4, 2025
Pros: - Interesting tech - Little or no stagnancy
Cons: - High expectations and frequent crunch periods

Fast and exciting startup, with excellent team culture!

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: - An amazing team to work with. Despite being a fully remote team, people are always super willing to pair up and help tackle a problem. - Everyone has a voice and is given room to grow and tackle problems and technologies that matter to them. - As a startup, there are few layers of bureaucracy, so communication from upper management to individual contributors is communicated quickly and is very responsive to feedback and suggestions. - Compensation is also generous.

Cons: - Projects and technology move a little too fast sometimes, causing tech debt to accumulate - Workload on projects can get hectic as deadlines approach - Still some growing pains as the company transitions away from a traditional start-up to a more established company, requiring processes to be better established.

5.0
Fast and exciting startup, with excellent team culture!
Software Engineer • Current Employee
July 6, 2023
Pros: - An amazing team to work with. Despite being a fully remote team, people are always super willing to pair up and help tackle a problem. - Everyone has a voice and is given room to grow and tackle problems and technologies that matter to them. - As a startup, there are few layers of bureaucracy, so communication from upper management to individual contributors is communicated quickly and is very responsive to feedback and suggestions. - Compensation is also generous.
Cons: - Projects and technology move a little too fast sometimes, causing tech debt to accumulate - Workload on projects can get hectic as deadlines approach - Still some growing pains as the company transitions away from a traditional start-up to a more established company, requiring processes to be better established.

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