Chainalysis Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
Based on 24 interview experiences · FREE TO READ
Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Chainalysis.
Chainalysis
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Average Negative experience No offer 6 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite Panel Presentation Background check Offer
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral System Design Presentation
HR reached out, and I had an interview with them. Then, I went through an online technical interview where I was asked easy to medium LeetCode questions. After that, I had a 1.5-hour in-person interview in Tel-Aviv with the engineering team lead, which involved a deep dive into my projects and an interview with the hiring manager. This part felt pretty good. Later, I had a scheduled 1-hour online System Design interview, but it got postponed 15 minutes before it was supposed to start, pushed back by almost 10 days. Then, on the same day it was rescheduled, it got postponed again, and I still have no idea when it will happen. About 2-3 weeks after that (a month since the last interview), I got a rejection email citing three reasons why I wasn't a good fit. It felt really unrealistic and unprofessional; they could have rejected me in the first week or two without scheduling a System Design interview. Rejecting me based on experience-related issues after scheduling another interview felt very misleading.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Tell me about challenges you've faced.
Chainalysis
Software Engineer
Entry Average Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Take home Technical screen Recruiter call Background check Offer
Interview formats
Coding Technical Behavioral
I went through 3 interviews for the Software Engineer New Grad role at Chainalysis. The sr. recruiter said I did well in all interviews and that the engineering team felt I'd be a good fit. However, it turned out they were only hiring new grads with a college background. Instead of telling me upfront, they had me do a take-home project and go through 3 more interviews over 5 weeks, only to then say I didn't have a chance because I'm a bootcamp grad, not a college grad. I wouldn't have minded if they'd told me I didn't qualify from the start, but wasting my time and resources really annoyed me.
Confirmed questions4 questions
- Compare btc price to eth on two different platforms via a take home project.
- Debug a technical assessment involving graphs and nodes, focusing on maps, queues, recursion, and fixing a dfs/bfs bug.
- Respond to cultural fit questions and provide examples of your experience in a behavioral interview.
Chainalysis
Software Engineer
Entry Average Positive experience Decline offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Take home Technical screen Recruiter call
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral
The interview process includes an online assessment (OA), a technical interview, and a behavioral interview. The technical questions are not standard LeetCode problems but are custom-made programming questions designed to assess your ability to grasp existing codebases and apply data structures and algorithms (DSA) in practical situations. Everyone at the company is really friendly and passionate about their work, making for a generally pleasant interview experience.
Confirmed questions5 questions
- Algorithm design questions asked during the OA.
- Questions about understanding the codebase.
- Tasks to debug several functions.
Chainalysis Software Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Chainalysis interview reports.
“Design a pub sub system with specific requirements.”
Read reports →“From which wallet are you transferring your digital assets to which one?”
Read reports →“Can you solve this DFS problem?”
Read reports →“What about data structures?”
Read reports →“Tell me about SQL.”
Read report →“Can you explain Java concepts?”
Read report →“Could you answer some debugging questions about basic algorithms?”
Read report →“What kind of ownership questions did they ask?”
Read report →“Tell me about your approach to solving graph problems, specifically those involving mazes, like Leetcode #1926 and #286.”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 24 Chainalysis interview reports.