Overall very kind, smart people. Fully remote, but can go in the office whenever Jack Dorsey is paying attention again Not bad work life balance
Senior leadership is pretty chaotic at the moment with the recent reorg Unless you’re the #1 person on your squad/ team, it’s hard to get substantial raise with the current structure
Hey Blind! I have an interview at Square coming up and have gotten some details about the system design interview. I'm wondering if it's more 1) general system design focused discussing caching, load balancing, etc OR if it's more 2) OOP oriented Just trying to figure out what I should brush up on...Read more
Does Square/Block still disclose the system design interview question ahead of the virtual onsite? #square #block
I’ve got an on-site coming up with Square where I was told I’ll be asked to design a hotel booking system for the design portion. From what I’ve seen, this is a standard question of theirs that they ask most candidate. Does anyone have recommendations on resources they found helpful to prep for this...Read more
I have the “design a hotel booking system” question coming up in a couple weeks. Any tips? #square #block #interview #systemdesign
I have an onsite next week at Square, and the recruiter gave me an actual question for the system design interview. It’s a pretty common question that you can find online, so I’m bit confused on what they are exactly looking for in this interview. Anyone working at Square- what does Square expect f...Read more
Hi. Anyone recently interviewed at Square system design. Can you share any tips on what things to focus on ? tC: 0 Yoe : 6 #engineering #software #swe #square #microsoft #amazon #google #meta #uber
Square asks everyone the same system design interview. That seems really easy to prepare for …knowing the question in advance. Does anyone happen to know what interviewers will be looking for? Any preparation advice? What to watch out for? Trying hard to ace this. TC: 220 Real money.
How is the system design difficultly level with Square compared to G or FB? I heard from other Blind posts that they tell you the design topic beforehand, is that true? My interview is a week away. Any info could help. Enjoyed their pair programming phone interviews.
I have a system design interview for an L4 role coming up this week. Can anyone share what the expectations are for this level at Square/Block? TC 110 YOE 3.5
Any tips for square design round? I saw the attached google doc in the interview invite and it has following format CandidateName| Software engineer- XX Is XX the team name or something to do with system design question? #square #block TC:240K 63
3 coding rounds, 1 round of talk about your project 1 of system design. Did pretty good on 2 of 3 coding rounds, struggled a bit on the 3rd did not get to optimal solution but had a brute force. But all 3 had working compiled code which square seemed to care more about. 1 hard and 2 easy questions...Read more
Curious if anyone who's involved in interviewing at Square knows how the much system design interview factors into hiring decision for a mid-level engineer. I felt like I did really well on the 3 coding round and the past experience round but system design was just ok. I got tripped up on a couple o...Read more
I saw a few older posts saying that Square/Block either discloses the question to you, or that it's the hotel booking system. My recruiter didn't disclose anything about the question to me -- curious to hear if anyone got a question recently that's not the hotel booking system ?
I have an on-site coming up soon and I’m wondering what are the expectations during the system design round for L3 or L4 candidates? I feel comfortable outlining a high level design and fleshing out the api (what endpoints the service will have). But, I’m wondering if I should be able to dive deepe...Read more
Does anyone know if there’s anything I should consider regarding the system design question for Square? They give the question before hand so I’m wondering if that means they expect a super polished answer or go into not so obvious areas? Basically just wondering what the reason is for giving this ...Read more
What should I expect here? Is it mainly discussing the data flow and API or will I also need to get into scalability, micro services, message queues etc etc
Hello folks, I have a system design interview for a Staff/Principal position at Square, and I was wondering what kind of system design interview it will be. Any tips on how to prepare for it? Do they want to see how you think and arrive at solutions from first principles, or do they want to see spe...Read more
will be joining soon, what type of email provider you use for employees, is it Google suite or Microsoft? also what all tools you use? slack, macos etc? TC:400 #square
recruiter straight up told me the design question is gonna be hotel booking system..? is this everybody's experience with square onsite? #square #systemdesign
Anyone know if square is still asking the “hotel reservation” system design question. Have read several blogs/posts that this was only question they used to ask in the past but wondering if this is still the case? All the position I’m interviewing for is an Engineering Manager position.