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Staff Software Engineer Interview Experience

August 25, 2026
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

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

  • First step is a 30-minute video screening with the recruiter.
  • Second round is a 30-minute video call with the hiring manager.
  • Third round, if you make it to the next stage, consists of a coding screen.
  • Final round is more comprehensive rounds of interviews, either on-site or virtual.

Questions

In the second round of the interview, the hiring manager asked me how I would deploy a drone in a GPS-denied area. Then he showed me a Python code snippet with a few bugs and asked me to identify them. It was a problem with calculating the sum of factorials. The coding round of the interview was in C++, since for this role they specifically ask for proficient modern C++ knowledge. I was asked to solve the problem of designing a hashmap.

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Shield AI's interview process for their Staff Software Engineer roles is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Shield AI's Staff Software Engineer interview process.

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