Plaid

SWE Intern Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

October 1, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

It wasn't hard, but instructions were unclear because they were verbal. After halfway through coding, he changed his instructions despite me confirming all my assumptions with him initially. Overall, it was pretty confusing, especially since he let me finish coding before clarifying a key point.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Plaid SWE Intern role in San Francisco, California.

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Pass Rate

Plaid's interview process for their SWE Intern roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral50%

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Plaid's SWE Intern interview process in San Francisco, California.

Plaid Interview Questions

K Closest Points to Origin

Medium

Find the k points closest to the origin (0, 0) from a given list of points on a 2D plane. The distance is measured using the Euclidean distance.

Arrays

Number of Islands

Medium

Given a grid representing land and water, count the number of distinct islands. An island is formed by connected land cells.

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