Software Engineer, Backend Interview Experience - Toronto, Ontario
Process
A screening call, followed by a 1-hour technical screening round. I had to work through a problem together with one of the engineers from Faire.
Next was 2 more technical rounds and a behavioral one. The technical rounds were similar to the screening, but with different problems and different engineers.
The problems' difficulty is probably LeetCode medium-medium+.
For the most part, interviewers were very cooperative and hinted in the right direction when I got stuck.
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Faire Work Experiences
- 5.0Real Impact, Complex CleanupSoftware Engineer(Internship) • Current EmployeeToronto, Ontario, CanadaSeptember 20, 2025Pros: Real impact & ownership (small teams, revenue-facing work). Strong data culture & modern stack (A/B tests, services, gRPC).Cons: Complex marketplace: Tech debt and edge cases; experiment cleanup. Coordination-heavy across teams; occasional on-call and reliability pressure.
- 4.0Great Culture, Project LotterySoftware Engineer Intern • Former EmployeeToronto, Ontario, CanadaSeptember 18, 2025Pros: Great company culture. Interns get to work with production code.Cons: Projects are team dependent. I heard from other interns that they didn't get to do much, while others were getting overworked.
- 5.0Great Projects, Unfair PaySWE Intern • Former EmployeeToronto, Ontario, CanadaSeptember 10, 2025Pros: Organized internship and real impact projects.Cons: Pay is by seniority, and there is no negotiation.
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