EasyPost Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

The whole process took three months from submitting the application, going through all five interviews, then getting a rejection. The five interviews were HR, engineering manager, then three engineering team interviews. After the HR interview, I was not too thrilled about this company, since the HR rep was stiff, robotic, and stereotypical company-first HR rep. The engineers I met with were smart and interesting. This company has the worst interview process of any company I have interviewed at. It also has the worst HR team of any company I have interviewed at. Communication was never prompt. Instead the HR drones at this company prefer to wait 2 weeks to a month to move you to the next stage. After completing all interviews and while I waited for a final decision, the HR drones made a decision a week later, then sat on the final rejection decision for a over a week before letting me know.

It started with a recruiter screening, followed by two management screenings and a leadership interview. Then there was a systems design round and a coding round, and finally, a management round. I felt the technical interviewers were inexperienced; they might be technically good but poor at interviewing. The system design interviewer kept cutting me off and didn't let me lead the discussion, forcing me into a design that wasn't ideal and I couldn't get the system where I wanted. For the coding part, the requirements were unclear and the interviewer avoided answering questions, which made me over-engineer the solution expecting tricky parts.

It was a great experience overall, and EasyPost moves super fast! Everyone was super pleasant to talk to and super accomodating. The engineers who interviewed me (all from the team I was interviewing for) were really pleasant, nice, smart, and even funny. It was cool how they put 2 engineers in each interview so I could see how they related to and synergized with each other, and also hear more perspectives about the engineers on the team I was interviewing for. The hiring manager was very down-to-earth and well-liked by the engineers. Everything had essentially a less than 1 day turnaround. I interviewed for a level 2 software engineer (I had 1.5 years of full-time experience), so I only had 2 hours of onsite interviews.