Pure Storage

Senior SDE Interview Experience - United States, United States

October 11, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Online assessment of basic computer science concepts and easy LeetCode-style coding.

One to two rounds of technical phone screen.

Five rounds of virtual onsite, including:

Two rounds of coding
Two rounds of system design
One culture fit/behavior round.

Finally, an offer call.

Questions

classic callback, drawing circle, count square

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Pure Storage Interview Questions

Valid Square

Medium

Determine if four given points in a 2D plane form a valid square. A valid square has four equal sides and four right angles.

Palindromic Substrings

Medium

Find the number of palindromic substrings within a given string. Consider each single character and repeated characters as a substring.

StringsDynamic ProgrammingTwo Pointers

Design Skiplist

Hard

Implement a Skiplist data structure that supports efficient search, insertion, and deletion of elements. A Skiplist is a probabilistic data structure with multiple levels of linked lists.

Linked Lists