Difficulty
Average
Candidate-reported interview insights
Alpaca Software Engineer interviews, decoded.
Explore commonly reported questions, interview rounds, difficulty, duration, and candidate experiences for the Software Engineer role at Alpaca.
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Interview overview
Average rounds
3
Average duration
~44 days
Difficulty and candidate experience
Interview difficulty
easy25%
average62.5%
difficult12.5%
Candidate experience
neutral25%
negative62.5%
positive12.5%
Candidate-reported interview process
Got a take home assignment to complete, and it was in a programming language I hadn't used before. They mentioned they'd be more understanding about my solution. I did the take home, but then heard nothing back.
I did a take-home assignment and then a technical interview. It seems like I was ghosted after the technical interview. They mentioned that knowledge of compiled languages would be useful, but they only use Go internally, which I didn't use for my assignment.
I had an initial chat with the recruiter, then a 45 min talk with the hiring manager about my background and motivations. After that, there were two more rounds: a technical interview on React and a system design interview. I didn't hear back after finishing everything, no decision, no feedback, and no reply to my messages. It was unprofessional to be ghosted after I put in a lot of time and effort preparing.
Common Alpaca Software Engineer interview questions
A focused selection of the most detailed candidate-submitted questions.
- 1
What are the appropriate data types for primary keys in PostgreSQL?
- 2
What are the different types of keys in PostgreSQL?
- 3
How to detect a race condition with Goroutines?
- 4
How is data saved in memory with Goroutines?
Interview question formats
Coding35%
Technical25%
System Design20%
Behavioral15%
Presentation5%
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Interview information is based on candidate reports and may not represent the current official hiring process of Alpaca.