Interviewing for Plaid. Two 1-hour each phone screen. What can I expect? I'm deep in LC, but the recruiter said that it's not LC and I have to code solution to a practical problem using my local development environment (with screen share).
How to avoid lawsuits
okayyeah.
"Design a system that tricks people into giving their bank credentials to a third party" Followups: 1. What type of database will you use to store the unencrypted passwords? 2. You have access to popular bank logos, saved as png files. How do you incorporate them?
Sorry, couldn't resist, best of luck
I feel like you made a neat joke and also helped me at the same time. If true, priceless skill
Wow, such hate! If only folks would have taken 5 minutes to actually read the details of the lawsuit :) To OP’s question: our interviews are focused on practical coding experiences and are not LC style. If you code on a day-to-day basis you should be fine! Good Luck 👍
Hey, will be joining plaid soon. How is plaid doing and do you think this lawsuit is pretty negligible in the long run?
My take is that the industry is moving to APIs largely so this shouldn't impact much. API authentication is safer, easier to understand and doesn't walk the gray line of password saving scrapers. my.plaid came from the suit and is honestly a bonus service and moves towards plaid being more visible as a service which can lead to better adoption and potential business with customers (easier to shift into BtoC whereas plaid is BtoB atm) Plaid just bought cognito for 250m, this trumps 58m suit imo.
Usually when company say interview is not LC type, it's LC that pretends to be a practical problem.
Solid point.
Op, can you share your experience?
Which location?
bay area