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Interview experiences · Rillet
Senior Software Engineer
I had a pretty strange interview experience and wanted to see if anyone else has experienced something similar. The first round was described as a pair-programming / Test-Driven Development exercise. The task was very simple: take an amount, such as 1200, divide it across 12 months, and make sure the resulting values were correct. I followed the TDD approach from their preparation guide: wrote th…
Interview experiences
Senior+ Staff Software Engineer Interview Experience — Breaking Down the L6 Behavioral Round
I recently wrapped up a round of L6 (Staff-level) behavioral interviewing. My overall impression: this is not remotely the same difficulty tier as L5. It's not testing "what have you done," it's testing whether you already think and influence the organization the way an L6 would. Below I'll break it down into four parts: what's actually being assessed, the most common question types, the mistakes…
Interview experiences · SentinelOne
SentinelOne Software Engineer interview: fast online technical pair
After a recruiter reached out, I shared my availability and received invitations quickly. The process moved fast and felt straightforward. I first spoke with the recruiter, then completed the technical part online in English. There were two back-to-back video technical interviews. The first covered conventional programming, including coding fundamentals and problem solving. The second moved to sy…
Interview experiences · Serval
Serval Interview Experience — Interview Ended at 60 of 90 Minutes, Still Rejected
The onsite interview was 90 minutes: an hour of coding plus 30 minutes of DB schema design. The coding part had two sub-questions. You're given a list-based stream where each item has a timestamp (sorted ascending) and a motion intensity between 0 and 1. Given a threshold, find all the continuous time periods where the motion intensity is greater than or equal to the threshold, and return the sta…
Interview experiences · ServiceNow
ServiceNow QA Engineer interview: easy coding and project discussion
The online interview felt straightforward and easier than I had expected. The coding portion involved stack and dynamic-programming ideas, including next greater element and a buy-and-sell-stocks problem. The conversation then moved to my project, where I explained my testing approach and how I verified the work. That set the tone for the rest of the call. It was a smooth, low-pressure discussion…
Interview experiences · ServiceNow
ServiceNow Software Engineer Interview Experience: Interrupted technical screen
The interview was tougher than it first appeared. I got an array problem that combined stack and queue ideas, and struggled to see how the structures were meant to connect. The flow worsened when the interviewer turned off the camera and left during the interview. I tried to get their attention, but was left waiting without real-time feedback. I got through the session but did not receive an offe…
Interview experiences · ServiceNow
ServiceNow Software Engineer interview: positive start, months of silence
I applied online, spoke first with a recruiter, and then had a video conversation with the hiring manager. During that call, I was told my skills matched what they wanted. Then I heard nothing for months. Eventually I received an automated rejection while the role kept appearing again. The recruiter also stopped responding after I reached out twice. It was frustrating because the process seemed t…
Interview experiences · ServiceTitan
ServiceTitan Account Executive, cold outreach role-play
My interview process started with a recruiter conversation, followed by a second round that focused on how I handled the sales discussion and the details behind it. After that round, I heard nothing. I followed up with the recruiter and still got no response, so it felt like I was ghosted after investing time in the process. The role-play case study focused heavily on outbound behavior, even thou…
Interview experiences · ServiceTitan
ServiceTitan Account Executive interview: repeated communication failures
The first recruiter screen went smoothly. The recruiter seemed engaged and said next steps with the hiring manager would be scheduled. Then I heard nothing for about two weeks. I emailed twice, and only after I included the hiring manager did I receive a rejection. It was especially frustrating because this was not my first experience with the company, and I felt my time was not being respected.…
Interview experiences · ServiceTitan
ServiceTitan Account Executive interview with mismatched role-play expectations
The process started well. The recruiter was polite and interested, and I felt there was a genuine handoff to the next round. The sales-manager stage then took a sharp turn. The managers didn't seem prepared, and the expectations didn't match what I had been told beforehand. The material said the mock exercise would involve simple objection handling and wouldn't require deep product knowledge. Dur…
Interview experiences · ServiceTitan
ServiceTitan Customer Success Engineer interview: recruiter silence
After I applied, I had an initial recruiter screen and the process seemed to be moving. Then I received an automated rejection. Later, the recruiter contacted me personally and asked for a call about an update. I replied promptly and followed up again that day, but heard nothing. Days later I tried again and still received no response. The silence was especially disappointing because the recruite…
Interview experiences · ServiceTitan
ServiceTitan Customer Success Engineer interview with recruiter, manager, and panel
My process felt refreshingly straightforward and well organized. It started with a recruiter screen, followed quickly by a conversation with the hiring manager. The recruiter was warm, and the scheduling and handoff felt seamless, which set a good tone from the beginning. The hiring manager round was thorough and engaged. The interviewer seemed prepared, and the conversation moved naturally. I di…
Interview experiences · ServiceTitan
ServiceTitan Customer Success Engineer: recruiter screen ended after twenty minutes
My recruiter screen started badly and never recovered. The questions were fairly basic for customer success, including how many accounts I’d managed and a scenario involving an escalation and churn risk I’d handled. The recruiter spoke extremely fast and seemed focused on specific keywords instead of trying to understand me. I had little room to ask questions, and the call ended early, after abou…
Interview experiences · ServiceTitan
ServiceTitan Software Engineer interview: difficult technical loops and inattentive evaluation
The process began with recruiter coordination and became a set of deep technical conversations that I found genuinely hard. One version included several coding interviews and a system design discussion. The people were pleasant and my impression of the culture was positive, but I was at the end of a hiring cycle, and that affected the result. In a different technical loop, the difficulty was not…
Interview experiences · ServiceTitan
ServiceTitan Software Engineer interview with async/await and system design
My process started with a recruiter screen and then moved into three technical rounds. In the first two, I spent long sessions pair programming. I implemented a custom data structure from an interface, then worked on parallel processing with async/await. The difficulty felt medium or easier, and the interviewers were fair and clear, so I could collaborate and ask questions as I went. The third ro…
Interview experiences · SharkNinja
SharkNinja Software Engineer interview: two calls and no response
I had two interviews, first with a hiring manager and then a team member. Each was about half an hour. The conversations felt natural, and I left both believing I had explained my background clearly and that the fit was there. Even so, I never heard back. After completing both conversations, the process seemed to lose momentum, leaving me feeling sidelined and wondering whether I had missed a fin…
Interview experiences · SHI International
SHI International Account Executive Interview Experience: Three-phase process before September start
I went through a three-phase process over about 2 to 3 weeks. It started with a short phone screen, roughly 20 to 25 minutes, which was mainly an introductory conversation to get to know me. I then had video interviews with a recruiting manager and a sales manager. Each conversation was part of a smooth, straightforward progression. The final step was another interview scheduled for September, ab…
Interview experiences · Shield AI
Shield AI Software Engineer interview: third-round coding session
I made it to the third round, a coding interview, and things had been going well until then. The recruiter and hiring manager seemed genuinely interested and were open about the role. The direction felt clear early on, and their communication seemed transparent. The coding interview went off track. The interviewer arrived 25 minutes late, and the questions didn't seem well planned. When I asked f…
Interview experiences · Shopee
Shopee Data Analyst interview: delayed and cancelled process
My experience began badly with inconsistent communication. I completed the first stage in early July and was told I would hear back in two days, but the response did not arrive until the end of the month. An automated WhatsApp message said I had advanced and asked whether I wanted to continue. I confirmed, waited another two days for a form, and then heard nothing for a week. When they eventually…
Interview experiences · Shopee
Shopee Data Analyst Interview Experience: Timed logic and SQL assessment
After an initial HR conversation, I received instructions and completed online assessments. The logic section used GMAT-style questions under time limits, followed by a SQL test. The process was direct and assessed precision under time pressure and consistency of my answers. Later interviews with users or the business area moved away from the exam format and toward fit with the day-to-day work. I…
Interview experiences · Shopee
Shopee Data Analyst interview: three respectful conversations
My Shopee process was calm from the beginning. The people I spoke with were easy to talk to, and the interviewers seemed consistent in being professional and respectful. At each step, I felt I could discuss my background without the conversation becoming tense. I had three interviews in all and signed the contract within a month. The difficulty was medium, but what I remember is how smoothly it m…
Interview experiences · Shopify
Shopify Data Scientist Interview Experience — A Long Process Built Around CEO Philosophy and a No-Calculator Math OA
Mainly want to complain about how bad the experience was with Shopify's interview process. TL;DR: it dragged on forever and had way too many rounds. Recruiter call -- they reached out to me first and spent the call selling their own company, selling the CEO's philosophy. I don't know if they genuinely believe in these lofty ideals or what, but it came across as unfriendly and really nitpicky. The…
Interview experiences · Shopify
Shopify Data Scientist Interview Experience — An Hour-Long Life Story Screen and No Salary Range from HR
Shopify feels like a total outlier among interviews, honestly 😂 The life story portion alone took a full hour.... You definitely have to read the company brochure HR sends over ahead of time — they'll ask what you thought of it. You don't need to go super deep, but you do need to praise it a bit. I'd suggest dropping it into ChatGPT and having it summarized for you.... either way, you have to rea…
Interview experiences · Shopify
Shopify Data Scientist Interview Experience — Data Viz Case, App Store Marketplace Case, and Life Story
The questions are the same as what's already covered in other interview reports out there, so I'll just add some extra details. Data Interpretation They start by showing you a chart of weekly session count over the past 3 years, with a spike around May, and ask you to give a hypothesis for it. Then they add conversion rate to the same chart, plus another metric (I forget exactly what it was) — at…