Process
1 Recruiter Interview
3 Phone Interviews:
- 1 coding interview
- 1 system design interview
- 1 interview with hiring manager
On-site consisting of 5 interviews:
- 1 coding
- 1 behavior
- 1 interview with hiring manager
- 1 debugging
- 1 critical thinking.
This place seems like a dumpster fire of code rot from all the new grads they hire. Several interviewers mentioned the large amount of technical debt and poor code quality.
Interviewers had zero diversity.
Was interviewed by a new grad project manager who monotoned rambled some business scenarios and texted on her phone while discussing.
Hard pass on this place.
Questions
Essentially, remove a random node from a graph with an even probability and check to see if that node was added back.
Debug some random line they added to Express.js middleware that was failing a unit test.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 40 interview experiences for the Scale AI Software Engineer role in United States.
Success Rate
15%
Pass Rate
Scale AI's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Positive28%
Neutral40%
Negative33%
Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Scale AI's Software Engineer interview process in United States.
Scale AI Work Experiences
3.0
Great environment wlb is hard
Software Engineer • Former Employee
May 2, 2025
Pros: Great place to learn and work hard.
Cons: Work life balance is not optimal.
5.0
Great growth, Improving Culture
Software Engineer • Current Employee
December 22, 2021
Pros: Very exciting business development; well-positioned with very strong traction in the AI space; incredibly strong team across the board; and generally interesting and challenging work.
Cons: Typical startup woes like a reactive engineering culture of selling before building, and some fires caused by tech debt.
1.0
Why not burnout faster?
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, CA
March 5, 2020
Pros: - The company is built on top of a group of extremely smart and hardworking people. It is not uncommon that some people work more than 50 hours regularly. By leveraging these extraordinary human resources, the company will no doubt be very successful in the short and medium term. Investors should be very proud of their bets.
Cons: - This company is a body shop. There is zero work life balance. The executives and managers do not care much of their people. They keep pushing new projects on the employees and let them burnout. The company provides not only lunch but also dinner everyday. You know why? Because people have to work super late and the catered dinner saves them time from going outside to grub food.
- The company has a solo focus on velocity. Engineers rush for new customer requests all the time and do not have time to architect or code properly. Priorities change every few days (yes, it sounds crazy). The former VP of engineering left the company because he did not agree with the company's over-emphasis on speed. Most of the engineering teams could not even plan a project of one month long. Most of the features are rushed and have accumulated a ton of tech debt, which has been causing a lot of damage now. If you are an engineer, you will not have the time to follow any of the best practices. Be prepared to become a lousy engineer if you work here for too long.
- 3.0Great environment wlb is hardSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeMay 2, 2025Pros: Great place to learn and work hard.Cons: Work life balance is not optimal.
- 5.0Great growth, Improving CultureSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeDecember 22, 2021Pros: Very exciting business development; well-positioned with very strong traction in the AI space; incredibly strong team across the board; and generally interesting and challenging work.Cons: Typical startup woes like a reactive engineering culture of selling before building, and some fires caused by tech debt.
- 1.0Why not burnout faster?Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, CAMarch 5, 2020Pros: - The company is built on top of a group of extremely smart and hardworking people. It is not uncommon that some people work more than 50 hours regularly. By leveraging these extraordinary human resources, the company will no doubt be very successful in the short and medium term. Investors should be very proud of their bets.Cons: - This company is a body shop. There is zero work life balance. The executives and managers do not care much of their people. They keep pushing new projects on the employees and let them burnout. The company provides not only lunch but also dinner everyday. You know why? Because people have to work super late and the catered dinner saves them time from going outside to grub food. - The company has a solo focus on velocity. Engineers rush for new customer requests all the time and do not have time to architect or code properly. Priorities change every few days (yes, it sounds crazy). The former VP of engineering left the company because he did not agree with the company's over-emphasis on speed. Most of the engineering teams could not even plan a project of one month long. Most of the features are rushed and have accumulated a ton of tech debt, which has been causing a lot of damage now. If you are an engineer, you will not have the time to follow any of the best practices. Be prepared to become a lousy engineer if you work here for too long.
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