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I recently completed my Square onsite (L6) and the feedback was that I need to redo system design round, has anyone faced this before? Would it be the same design question that Square always asks or something different? Is there a higher expectation on the SD round as its a redo? Here is my experie...Read more
I have an SDM interview coming up. Can someone tell me how to prepare or example questions or will this a system design.#software #engineering#interview
looking for pointers to prepare for square onsite for ml coding interview: are you supposed to code the algorithm from scratch or you can use packages? for ml architecture: what are some of the area of focus? #tech #interview #square
I have got an onsite call from square and wanted to understand what can I expect in application architecture, system design and coding questions? YoE: 4 Position applying for: Senior Software Engineer #square #onsite #virtualonsite #seniorsoftwareengineer
I just wanted to apply for Square iOS role and was wondering how does iOS interview look like? I wanted to start preparing specifically Square way. Should I expect all LCs or combination of LC + iOS project,..? How does virtual on-site look like? is it Architecture + LC + project + behavioral? Als...Read more
Recruiter said they’d slot me for L4 (2nd level) or L5 (third level) at Square for the on-site. I’m currently SDE2 - what does it take to uplevel? What should I be optimizing for in the architecture interviews?
Hi everyone, I have an onsite with square coming up. I wanted to know what to expect in pair programming rounds? Is it mostly OOP if so any examples or is it LC questions or mix of both? For architecture round read some posts mentioning that you can ask recruiter upfront about question is that rig...Read more
Hi, I have an onsite scheduled with square for the hardware team. The recruiter mentioned there is going to be system architecture and pair programming interviews. I am not able to find many resources for the hardware roles. I am guessing by system architecture they mean system design? I am reading ...Read more
I got feedback for my Square interview and it was very confusing. Recruiter said that my interviews went well and he does not have any negative feeback as such except for architectural interview where they had some concerns. She mentioned even though they had some concerns but still it was not a ‘no...Read more
18 years of experience in every aspect of software engineering, from QA to architecture and now people management. I'm looking for a senior engineering manager role or director role at Square. Anyone willing to make the referral?
Hi all I recently started actively interviewing and looking for referrals at Google, Facebook, Apple, Stripe, Square, Salesforce, Tableau etc around Seattle area. Please reach out if your team has an opening and looking for an engineer. Experience: Amazon and Microsoft. ~ 5yrs Microservices, NoSql...Read more
Hi Recruiters, Developers and Managers I recently started actively interviewing and looking for referrals at Google, Facebook, Apple, Stripe, Square, Salesforce, Tableau etc around Seattle area. Please reach out if your team has an opening and looking for an engineer. Experience: Amazon and Microso...Read more
Hi! Need help! Quit a toxic manager and work culture at Wells Fargo. Been primarily in big banks and financial institutions like BOFA, Morgan Stanley. Capone etc. Looking to break into a good company with a decent WLB. My skills are: Data engineering, data architecture, databases TC: 225K , YOE: 2...Read more
I had given a couple of interviews at Square, OCI, Visa, Confluent, a few among the Faangs and I had not been able to crack any of them. Sometimes, I fail to get through the LC screening round, and if I get past that, I am struggling to some extent with System Design as well as explaining architect...Read more
This is a summary of my experience interviewing with Square. The good the bad and the fugly. The Good: Coding interviews, pair programming. Great questions, progression based, some are even real world problem based. Not the I'm trying to prove I'm smarter than you so I'll ask you the hardest most ...Read more
I am starting at Google in September as L3 but I already have 2 years of experience (including internships). Up until now, I was working in a small company where I had a lot of input on architecture, design, choice of tech, etc. I'm a bit worried I won't have a voice anymore and I will be back to s...Read more
I got the square on site coming up (split into two days) - 3 Pair Programming Interviews (via CodeSignal again) These should be the same as the phone screens so i think i’ll be okay here - 2 Q&A Sessions (Past experience as well as Architecture/Design) Kind of nervous for system design, i don’t ...Read more
I've got an interview with square coming up for an ML engineer position. Square gives you the general sys design question ahead of time (build a hotel booking site) and there will be an ML sys design round as well. I have a few questions: 1) Large system architectures like this are not really my ex...Read more
Hi, I have an upcoming interview at CashApp for a Sr BIE. They told me to come prepared with SQL for a SQL screen but there's also Data modelling architecture and Python. I haven't touched Python in a while except pandas and the doc specifically says - Python questions (not pandas). Any topics to ...Read more
I read a lot about the interview process at Stripe for developers. Would like to know how different the interview is for 'Staff Engineer'. From job description, it is a senior position guiding team on architecture and mentoring. Really appreciate if anyone could list the interview rounds. I have 1...Read more