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Staff Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

July 14, 2023
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks.

Typical SWE interview process:

  • screen
  • 1h pairing x2
  • system design

Applied to a frontend position, not a single question however was about frontend and of course at the end of the interview the company had zero signal on my actual skillset. Went through the whole process, recruiters then stopped responding. Not a word after the last interview. Waste of time.

Questions

Given an answer word and a guess word, return an array of length 5 that determines the result of the guess. This array will return "G" for green if the guessed letter is at the same index of the answer, "Y" for yellow if the guessed letter is in the answer (but not at the same index) and "_" otherwise.

Build a SQL query execution engine to run parsed SQL statements against a set of data, stored as records of keys and values.

Come up with a syntax for user input to the cells that supports the following requirements:

  • Ability to make a cell equal to some function of some other cells
  • Support data types: strings, numbers, booleans, null (different from empty string)
  • One sheet per view

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Interview Statistics

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Retool's interview process for their Staff Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Retool's Staff Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.