Smart Colleagues, Quiet Office
Smart Colleagues, Quiet Office
Lot of smart people there, great benefits, good food options, free snacks, generally positive work environment. They were pretty open to letting you work from home.
Somewhat lonely place to work. You spend most of your time alone in your office (this was before the new open floorplans). Communication with managers was more difficult than it needed to be. Some interns fell behind and were totally lost.
Management should maybe keep better track of intern progress and communicate with them more frequently. I think the move to shared offices was a good idea.
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SWE Intern
Had 3 interviews focused on LeetCode-style problems. The questions were quite easy; one was about dynamic programming, and some other questions were about linked lists. They were Easy/Medium difficulty. Each interview was around 45 minutes long.
Software Engineer
I got the invitation link, completed and passed every test case successfully, but surprisingly received a rejection the following week without any clear explanation, even though my performance met all expectations.
Software Development Engineer (SDE) II
The onsite consisted of two system design questions and two technical questions. These rounds were back to back and weren't actually ordered. I thought I was going to be doing technical first, but was hit with design at the start.
SWE Intern
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 9, 2025Had 3 interviews focused on LeetCode-style problems. The questions were quite easy; one was about dynamic programming, and some other questions were about linked lists. They were Easy/Medium difficulty. Each interview was around 45 minutes long.
Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 5, 2025I got the invitation link, completed and passed every test case successfully, but surprisingly received a rejection the following week without any clear explanation, even though my performance met all expectations.
Software Development Engineer (SDE) II
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 5, 2025The onsite consisted of two system design questions and two technical questions. These rounds were back to back and weren't actually ordered. I thought I was going to be doing technical first, but was hit with design at the start.
