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Databricks - Interview Experience - Software Engineer Result: Pending Number of Rounds: 6 Did my Databricks loop last week, sharing notes since I couldn't find many recent English breakdowns. Phone screen (55 mins): CIDR block IP matching. Given a list of ordered rules, match an incoming IP to the first match. Requires...

Google - Company Culture - Software Engineer Time at Company: 2 years Hardest part about Google isn't getting in. It's realizing the interview was the most intellectually honest part of the whole thing. Two years in. What I got: Constant reorgs. Project reset every 6 months. Reviews where you're ranked against peers, n...

Anthropic - Company Culture - Software Engineer Time at Company: 8 months Eight months in and still feel like I got lucky landing here. The mission stuff isn't just marketing, you actually feel it in what gets prioritized day to day. Work is intense but teammates are sharp and genuinely collaborative. Haven't seen the...

Got the Amazon offer Result: Offer Number of Rounds: 4 Went through the loop last month after a long gap from OA (applied in March, wasn't scheduled until recently). Phone screen was sliding window + one LP. Felt comfortable, interviewer seemed positive. Loop was 3 rounds: coding (two-pointer stuff, monotonic stack), L...

Oracle OCI rejection Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 5 Phone screen was number of islands and valid parentheses on HackerRank. Passed. VO was 5 rounds. Coding had merge intervals and convert BST to greater tree. The behavioral round had 9 questions back to back, no breaks. System design was VM health monitoring at s...

OpenAI close call Result: Pending Number of Rounds: 5 Phone screen was KV store serialization. Parts 1 through 3: basic serialization, file splitting with size limit, then append-only log variant. Got through all three. VO was 5 rounds. GPU Credits for coding round 1, went fine. Coding round 2 was the virus transmissio...

Google rejection Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 4 Four rounds: two coding, Googliness, system design. Coding round 1 was matrix connectivity via BFS. Interviewer gave hints along the way. Got it working. Round 2 was nested expression evaluation. Solved it without any hints, thought it was my strongest round. Turns...

Amazon - Career Growth - SDE I Time at Company: 3 years Three years in, still SDE I. Two promo cycles went by with vague feedback. Third cycle, my manager said scope wasn't available on my team. I wrote a 28-page promo doc anyway. He submitted it with the wrong team's data attached. Found out two weeks after the cycle...

Uber offer Result: Offer Number of Rounds: 5 Phone screen was the hit counter problem. Spent the last 10 minutes walking through tradeoffs: queue clearing strategy, background threading, stale data handling. Interviewer was engaged the whole time. VO was 5 rounds. Coding used the longest subarray absolute diff problem...

Capital One OA Result: Pending Number of Rounds: 1 CodeSignal, 70 minutes, 4 problems. Camera and full screen sharing required, ID verification before starting. Q1 symmetric triplet count. Q2 array split by comparison. Q3 matrix operations. Q4 string pair concatenation. Q4 ran over time. Finished 3 and a partial. Not s...

Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 2 Interview Questions & Experience Passed the first OA -> HR -> phone screen -> rejection. OA and on site were both about handling string data. I was out of time after part2 at on phone screen. Probably that is why I was rejedcted. Tips & Takeaways Write code fast. I don't think they...

Airbnb rejection Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 5 Phone screen was the bank account system. Deposit, withdraw, and transaction history with binary search components. Tight on time. VO was 4 rounds. Coding: House Robber III variant (got it working, wrote test cases) and the booking/split stay problem (DFS with memoi...

Affirm rejection Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 6 Phone screen was the loan/parent company hierarchy problem. 100+ lines of starter code, had to read through it carefully before coding. Passed. VO was 5 rounds: coding (fraud detection), A/B testing system design, past experience, HM, and PM. Technical rounds went f...

Snowflake rejection Result: Rejected Number of Rounds: 4 Two phone screens: cake problem BFS and a graph problem. Both fine, finished early. Onsite was two more coding rounds plus system design. Logging library SD was confusing, expectations were completely unclear. Interviewer kept asking vague follow-ups without indi...

Robinhood offer Result: Offer Number of Rounds: 4 Phone screen: dependency graph. Onsite: referral leaderboard, job scheduler SD, project deep dive. Deep dive was the real challenge. Got it.