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Staff Software Engineer Interview Experience

February 10, 2026
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Process

I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks.

Initially contacted by recruiting agency. Initial screening round was taken by the same agency. All the later discussions were handled by company recruiter. Recruiter was very supportive and organized. The interview panel was really kind and empathetic, and made sure that the candidate feels comfortable.

Questions

Initial screening round consisting of coding + system design.

Coding: Given start time and end time of tasks, calculate the number of machines required to finish the tasks.

System Design: Dropbox. Concentrating on pausing and resuming uploads and downloads.

On-site interview consists of 4 rounds:

    1. Coding: Given a string and sources, write a program to calculate output. input: "the quick brown fox" sources: ["the quick", "quick brown"] output: "the quick brown fox" Expectation: Breaking the problem into multiple phases, writing clean and working code.
    1. Deep dive on past project: Suggest to create a doc about your work that you want to present.
    1. Impact and Collaboration: Behavioural questions
    1. System Design: Provided a set of documents, queries/prompts being added columns, design system to display this in table format.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Harvey AI Staff Software Engineer role.

Success Rate

50%
Pass Rate

Harvey AI's interview process for their Staff Software Engineer roles is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Harvey AI's Staff Software Engineer interview process.

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