Software Engineer Interview Experience - Salt Lake City, Utah
Process
Very long interview process. I understand they want to be thorough, but at some point, they need to be more considerate of candidates' time.
I had a phone screen with a recruiter, a technical interview with an engineer, a phone call with the hiring manager, a take-home assignment (which I had five days to complete), and then on-site interviews. The on-site interviews consisted of one interview with an engineer, lunch with the team, one interview with my hiring manager, and one interview with a different hiring manager.
Their codebase is all in TypeScript. Initial interviews didn't require TypeScript knowledge, but the take-home assignment and the on-site interviews were 100% in TypeScript. Definitely want to familiarize yourself with TypeScript if you haven't used it.
Questions
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the Plaid Software Engineer role in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Plaid's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Salt Lake City, Utah is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
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Candidates reported having negative feelings for Plaid's Software Engineer interview process in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Plaid Work Experiences
- 5.0👍Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, CAJuly 20, 2020Pros: - Plaid cares a ton about employee happiness and company culture - Competitive comp - Extremely mission and principles driven company - Has a solid core product offering, but is still pushing out into new territory with new products and ideas all the time - 3x yearly company hackathon is amazing - Genuinely the smartest yet most humble engineering team that I have ever worked on.Cons: - Company has doubled in size in the last year, so there has been almost constant re-orging and mitosis of teams and groups, which is a little chaotic. - Doesn't invest enough into open sourcing great things that we have built internally. - Some systems have very high bus factors, and basically we always desperately need more engineers on everything :P
- 5.0Great Place to WorkSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeMay 23, 2022Pros: Work-life balance, an exciting industry, and bright leadership.Cons: Growing pains and miscommunication amongst middle management
- 5.0Great WLBSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, NYMarch 22, 2026Pros: Great WLB, people culture, and in-office vibesCons: A high degree of complexity in the codebase.
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