Squarespace

Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

March 1, 2018

Negative ExperienceGot Offer

Process

I went through a third-party recruiter who set up the following:

Phone screen
Take-home assignment
In-person interview
Meet managers (multiple)
Offer

The feedback after the in-person interview took an extremely long time (I believe 3 weeks?). I worked with multiple people on the in-house recruitment team. While they were all nice and great to talk to, they had issues communicating my timeline specifics internally and rarely had timely responses. Once I started talking to the engineering director and managers, things went much more smoothly.

The only reason I'm giving a negative experience is because of the communication issues on their recruitment team's side.

Questions

Take-home assignment to make a well-known game, with somewhat hard algorithms, very standard architecture, and tactical problems that any senior software engineer should know.

For the tactical and architecture problems, I felt like I was experiencing some actual real-world problems and getting a glimpse of what the day-to-day is like.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 17 interview experiences for the Squarespace Senior Software Engineer role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

53%

Pass Rate

Squarespace's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in New York, New York is on the easier side as most engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive65%

Neutral12%

Negative24%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Squarespace's Senior Software Engineer interview process in New York, New York.

Squarespace Work Experiences

Dream job

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Culture, Competitive Salary, Inclusive and Open

Cons: There have been some growing pains.

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Culture, Competitive Salary, Inclusive and Open

Cons: There have been some growing pains.

Great overall, management needs improvement.

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

September 19, 2024

Pros: Great co-workers who do a good job in hiring people that are really easy to work with

Cons: It takes a lot of time to get things done, with too much bureaucracy, and the teams always lack the correct amount of people to move fast enough.

Great overall, management needs improvement.

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

September 19, 2024

Pros: Great co-workers who do a good job in hiring people that are really easy to work with

Cons: It takes a lot of time to get things done, with too much bureaucracy, and the teams always lack the correct amount of people to move fast enough.

Used to be great, now just OK.

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: - Profitable, stable, public company - Equity that is worth cash and not monopoly money - Lots of unsolved problems and room for impact, unlike FAANG, where not all problems have been solved!

Cons: - Leadership from directors up to the C-Suite. At the lower levels are newer leaders who are more focused on building armies than solving problems. At the higher levels, just dispassionate and tired. - Technical debt. This is a 10+ year old codebase that has gone through multiple major framework changes, monolith to microservices, etc. It is showing its age and is hard to move fast with. - Politics. The company can feel very siloed and lacking collaboration across teams and orgs than most of this size.

Used to be great, now just OK.

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: - Profitable, stable, public company - Equity that is worth cash and not monopoly money - Lots of unsolved problems and room for impact, unlike FAANG, where not all problems have been solved!

Cons: - Leadership from directors up to the C-Suite. At the lower levels are newer leaders who are more focused on building armies than solving problems. At the higher levels, just dispassionate and tired. - Technical debt. This is a 10+ year old codebase that has gone through multiple major framework changes, monolith to microservices, etc. It is showing its age and is hard to move fast with. - Politics. The company can feel very siloed and lacking collaboration across teams and orgs than most of this size.

Dream job

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: Culture, Competitive Salary, Inclusive and Open

Cons: There have been some growing pains.

5.0
Dream job
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
New York, NY
March 30, 2021
Pros: Culture, Competitive Salary, Inclusive and Open
Cons: There have been some growing pains.

Great overall, management needs improvement.

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

September 19, 2024

Pros: Great co-workers who do a good job in hiring people that are really easy to work with

Cons: It takes a lot of time to get things done, with too much bureaucracy, and the teams always lack the correct amount of people to move fast enough.

4.0
Great overall, management needs improvement.
Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee
New York, NY
September 19, 2024
Pros: Great co-workers who do a good job in hiring people that are really easy to work with
Cons: It takes a lot of time to get things done, with too much bureaucracy, and the teams always lack the correct amount of people to move fast enough.

Used to be great, now just OK.

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Pros: - Profitable, stable, public company - Equity that is worth cash and not monopoly money - Lots of unsolved problems and room for impact, unlike FAANG, where not all problems have been solved!

Cons: - Leadership from directors up to the C-Suite. At the lower levels are newer leaders who are more focused on building armies than solving problems. At the higher levels, just dispassionate and tired. - Technical debt. This is a 10+ year old codebase that has gone through multiple major framework changes, monolith to microservices, etc. It is showing its age and is hard to move fast with. - Politics. The company can feel very siloed and lacking collaboration across teams and orgs than most of this size.

3.0
Used to be great, now just OK.
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
New York, NY
March 31, 2024
Pros: - Profitable, stable, public company - Equity that is worth cash and not monopoly money - Lots of unsolved problems and room for impact, unlike FAANG, where not all problems have been solved!
Cons: - Leadership from directors up to the C-Suite. At the lower levels are newer leaders who are more focused on building armies than solving problems. At the higher levels, just dispassionate and tired. - Technical debt. This is a 10+ year old codebase that has gone through multiple major framework changes, monolith to microservices, etc. It is showing its age and is hard to move fast with. - Politics. The company can feel very siloed and lacking collaboration across teams and orgs than most of this size.

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