Plaid

SWE Intern Interview Experience - United States, United States

October 17, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Took an online assessment and a recruiter reached out to schedule a behavioral and technical interview. Both interviews were on the same day, so I did the behavioral for 30 minutes and the technical for about 45 minutes.

Questions

All behavioral questions were focused on one project.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Plaid SWE Intern role in United States.

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Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Plaid's SWE Intern interview process in United States.

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.

ArraysGraphsRecursion