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Interview experiences · Plangrid
Plangrid Software Engineer interview: 600-point assessment and two technical rounds
I began with an online assessment scored out of 600. It worked as a straightforward filter, and after I cleared it I had two technical rounds. Those interviews focused on programming and SQL-style questions, with DSA, basic system design, and role context also coming up. After the second technical round, I expected a final wrap-up through the college-placement track. Instead, I did not get a clea…
Interview experiences · PNC Financial Services Group
PNC Financial Services Group Software Engineer interview experience: recorded interview
After applying, I completed a recorded interview and then moved into a superday-style session with managers. They were friendly and professional, and the process felt straightforward rather than especially stressful. The recruiter arranged more time after the recorded step. A follow-up call led to a hiring-manager interview with basic technical questions, plus behavioral and technical discussion…
Interview experiences · PNY
PNY Software Engineer interview: assessment, HR phone, manager video and in-person final
After applying, I completed an online assessment, then had a phone interview with HR, a video interview with the hiring manager, and a final interview in person. It felt high-pressure, with several checkpoints before I reached the later stages. The questions were not described to me in detail. What stood out was moving through the different formats: phone screening, a manager discussion by video,…
Interview experiences · Point72
Point72 AI Engineer Interview Experience — HackerRank OA, Then a Robotic HM Screen and a Rejection
A recruiter reached out to me first. After the phone screen, they sent a HackerRank OA — three questions total, 90 minutes. The first question was a lot like one I'd seen in another thread, just with the scenario swapped out. The second one was a LeetCode question. The third was a prompt-engineering question with five sub-parts. Basically: you're an Olympic champion's coach and you need to help t…
Interview experiences · Point72
Point72 Data Scientist Interview Experience — HackerRank OA Then a Decision-Tree Phone Screen
OA 60 minutes, 4 questions on HackerRank. Same as most experience reports here, except the third question was SQL — for the others you could pick Python or R. But I'd guess most people here just use Python. Date transformation Arbitrary shopping (screenshot attached) SQL question (pretty easy) Given the centers and radii of two circles, write a function to determine their positional relationship…
Interview experiences · Point72
Point72 Data Scientist Interview Experience — HackerRank OA With a Circle-Geometry Question, Then a Coin-Flip Expectation Puzzle
OA 60-minute HackerRank test, 4 questions. Same format as most experience posts here — except question 3 was SQL, and for the other questions you could choose Python or R. But I'm pretty sure most people here just use Python. Date transformation Arbitrary shopping (there was an image attached) SQL question (pretty easy) Given the center and radius of two circles, write a function to determine the…
Interview experiences · Point72
Point72 Intern Data Scientist Interview Experience — OA Cut to 50 Minutes for Five Questions
There's not much information about this internship role on the forum, and what's there is outdated, so today I'll share my OA to help others out (and also help myself next year when I'm looking for full-time). The OA got a lot harder this year — it used to be three questions in one hour, but now it's five questions in 50 minutes. The questions were two easy SQL questions, two easy-medium LeetCode…
Interview experiences · Point72
Point72 Quantitative Research Intern Interview Experience — A Broad Second Round Covering Probability, Stats, ML, and LeetCode
Recruitment process: five rounds of interviews in total. This is the second round. Behavioral Self-introduction How I taught myself finance knowledge Technical Probability Question 1: The classic three-roll dice expectation problem. You can roll a die up to three times, and after each roll you can choose to stop. Your final payoff is the value of the last roll. Compute the expected value of the g…
Interview experiences · Point72
Point72 Quantitative Researcher Intern Interview Experience — Auction Theory and a 32-Ball Tournament Puzzle
Hiring process: five rounds total. This was round one. Behavioral Self-introduction Why do you want to do quant? Share the trading strategies you know Talk about your previous relevant internship experience Math questions Question 1: Second-price auction Two people are bidding on an item. Rules: Whoever bids the highest gets the item. The winner doesn't pay their own bid — they pay the other bidd…
Interview experiences · Posthog
Posthog technical screen/system design
Question was basically "how would you implement analytics for a small mom and pop ecommerce site". Interviewer was a bit of a jerk and pushed back on very minute details about how analytics would be gathered in the first place instead of system design. Whatever it says in their guide about this being a conversation is not true (at least for this interviewer). You need to monologue and you get no…
Interview experiences · Powerschool
Powerschool Account Executive interview: five interviews and delayed follow-up
For an entry-level sales role, the process involved many steps, although communication was transparent while it was happening. After a recruiter call, I went through five interviews: an HR interview, a conversation with my direct boss, and three separate interviews with team members. The questions were typical for the role. They covered my background and how I would approach client, sales, and ro…
Interview experiences · Precisely
Precisely Software Engineer Interview Experience: a cold and unwelcoming interaction
The interview left a sour taste from the beginning. The conversation felt cold, and the interviewer came across as unfriendly and unwelcoming. The atmosphere did not feel professionally run, and it kept me on edge instead of letting me settle in and discuss my background. By the end, I did not feel as though I had been through a normal hiring loop. I felt dismissed by the tone and the way the int…
Interview experiences · PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS
PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS Consultant interview: five rounds, case study, and partner discussion
I went through a long, tightly sequenced process with five rounds, each involving two people. It began informally, then moved into behavioral questions and a case study. After I completed the case, senior managers interviewed me again. The pace accelerated after the case. I took a 60-minute test and then ended with a final conversation with partners. The process was difficult because of both the…
Interview experiences · Prime Video
Prime Video Network Engineer Interview Experience: opaque online tasks without an offer
After applying, I went through something that did not resemble a traditional interview. I was told I would be "successful" after completing a set of tasks, but the process mostly involved online work, watching videos, and answering questions. There was no clear, standard interview to prepare for in the usual way. Feedback itself came fairly quickly. A few days later, I got an email saying I had b…
Interview experiences · Prime Video
Prime Video Software Engineer interview: campus OA, graph problems, and GenAI discussion
The process was shaped by an on-campus format with several elimination steps before anything resembling a final loop. It began with an OA that included frequency-based sorting, greedy and observation-based array work, an Amazon Leadership Principles work simulation, and a feedback and workstyle survey. Round 1 was a 1-hour virtual interview using Zoom and a live coding platform. After a short int…
Interview experiences · Prime Video
Prime Video Software Engineer interview: coding and leadership-principles screen
After recruiter outreach, I went through a focused phone interview process with one coding round and two leadership-principles-style questions. Coding and the principles felt like two parts of the same test: I needed to show general engineering ability and communicate how I was thinking. I did not need deep knowledge of the exact team. The recruiter presented it as a general-skill screen about ho…
Interview experiences · Prime Video
Prime Video Software Engineer interview: coding assessment, live coding and leadership principles
I started with an online coding assessment on data structures, algorithms, and basic problem-solving. The technical interviews that followed combined live coding, system-design fundamentals, and Amazon leadership principles. The interviewers were professional and kept asking follow-ups to understand my reasoning, not only the final answer. It was challenging, but organized enough that I could tel…
Interview experiences · Prime Video
Prime Video Software Engineer interview: compact practical rounds
I had two one-hour interviews. Each included one technical question and Leadership Principles. I was also asked about AI use. A hiring manager introduced one round with a top-k-style problem without an API. Another technical prompt used a restaurant-manager scenario involving groups arriving, so it felt more applied than a textbook coding exercise. I did not receive an offer. For such a short pro…
Interview experiences · Prime Video
Prime Video Software Engineer interview: debugging and virtual loop
My first technical task was a web-app debugging exercise rather than pure LeetCode. A limited AI assistant could read files and explain them, but it would not give me the answer. I still had to reason through the code and find the bug myself. The later virtual loop covered data structures, system design, debugging, and behavioral discussion around Amazon Leadership Principles. The technical work…
Interview experiences · Prime Video
Prime Video Software Engineer interview: difficult online assessment
The online assessment was harder than I expected. It had three LeetCode-style questions. I completed the easier first one, brute-forced parts of the second, and could not fully solve the third, which was in the medium-to-hard range. The questions emphasized data structures and edge cases. One late question had many scenarios to account for. I could move between questions and return to earlier one…
Interview experiences · Prime Video
Prime Video Software Engineer interview: DSA and Leadership Principles
The process leaned heavily on DSA, Leadership Principles, and some low-level design. I felt the evaluation was split between algorithmic problem solving and how I communicated through the Leadership Principles lens. The DSA rounds varied in difficulty but were LeetCode-like. They included medium problems and at least one hard question with DP and graph themes. I had to explain my thinking, time a…
Interview experiences · Prime Video
Prime Video Software Engineer interview: DSA, design, and leadership principles
My process began with an online assessment on data structures and algorithms. Soon after that, I had a technical phone screen, followed by a final loop of multiple consecutive rounds. What I remember most is how much the later interviews emphasized Amazon leadership principles alongside system design. The technical and behavioral sides were not separate in the loop. System design was a major them…
Interview experiences · Prime Video
Prime Video Software Engineer interview: DSA screening and technical loop
The Prime Video process opened with a conversation about my resume and experience, then moved immediately into technical work. The first serious step covered mid-to-hard DSA: dynamic programming, matrix-related problems, and graph questions. They wanted to hear the approach I planned to take before I started. The screening and loop followed what felt like a standard order. The phone interview was…
Interview experiences · Prime Video
Prime Video Software Engineer interview experience
Before the interviews, I spent hours on coding challenges and felt the preparation pay off immediately. The first technical question was about substring lengths and matched something I had seen while preparing. I was then asked about merging linked lists, followed by a behavioral question about frugality. The process was straightforward and approachable, which surprised me given the usual intensi…