Grant Street Group Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
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and how the experience turned out.
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Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Grant Street Group.
Grant Street Group
Software Engineer
Senior Average Neutral experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Coding Behavioral Technical
It started with a recruiter/HR prep talk, then an initial LeetCode round. The second round had 4-5 different people, mostly to check personality fit. The last part involved DBMS database design, similar to other experiences, and wasn't too challenging if you've done it before.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- How would you approach a LeetCode problem involving string manipulation, particularly using sorting with negative integers?
- Can you explain database design for DBMS?
Grant Street Group
Software Engineer
Entry Difficult Neutral experience No offer 5 rounds
Interview process
Take home Technical screen Onsite Presentation
Interview formats
Coding Technical Behavioral Technical
First, they send a coding assessment with a SQL challenge and a coding challenge in your preferred language. The coding challenge was hard, I won't give it away, but I will just say that it would be best to break down the challenge into a bunch of smaller problems to solve and then combine. The next step was a coding challenge with a tech lead, and a more casual interview. The tech lead responded to questions, offered some thoughts and subtle hints. The next phase was 4 back to back interviews with a HR person, two engineers, and then a relational database design challenge with an engineer and a PM. The interviews with the engineers went shorter than anticipated, they didn't have many questions between them. This may have been my weakest of the 4 interviews because I would consider making separate tables for things that may have made more sense to store in a single table. A day later after the 4 interviews, I got a rejection letter.
Confirmed questions8 questions
- Tell me about a time you had a good manager
- Describe the worst mistake you've made
- How do you balance speed with thoroughness?
Grant Street Group
Software Developer
Entry Average Positive experience No offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite Offer
Interview formats
Behavioral Coding Case Presentation
I was contacted by a recruiter who set up a live coding interview. It began with behavioral questions about a project and my coding background. The coding challenge involved a string manipulation problem, similar to what's mentioned in other reviews. Interestingly, unlike other coding interviews I've done, speaking wasn't required, so I made sure to add plenty of comments and explain my thought process. After the coding interview, I advanced to the next stage, which had four 30-minute sessions with different people from the company like a recruiter, an engineer, and managers. These were mostly behavioral, with easy questions that felt like conversations. One session was a case study where I had to design a website and outline the tables and schema for it. I didn't make it to the final round with the executive team, but everyone was really nice and laid-back throughout the whole thing.
Confirmed questions4 questions
- Can you share an instance where you made an error?
- Could you discuss a particular project you were involved in?
- Walk me through your experience in coding.
Grant Street Group Software Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Grant Street Group interview reports.
“Given an input string, print a sorted list of substring counts.”
Read reports →“Find and count all occurrences of all possible substrings of a given string, ignoring case, and excluding numbers, whitespace, or special characters.”
Read reports →“Can you print a sorted list of substrings and their counts from a given input string?”
Read reports →“Can you write a function that returns all permutations of a given string?”
Read reports →“Given a string S, can you write a function that returns a string showing all occurrences of one-letter, two-letter, three-letter, etc. combinations found in S?”
Read report →“Could you modify a file in place using Perl?”
Read report →“Could you count how many times each possible substring appears?”
Read report →“Can you write code to take a URL and return the words and their frequency from the webpage, sorted in ascending order?”
Read report →“Could you count the occurrences of each integer within an array and then arrange these counts in descending order?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
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