Prosper.com Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

The interview process had 5 rounds in total. These included 2 coding rounds, 1 System design round, 1 round focused on SQL and API design, and a Manager round. When it came to discussing numbers, the recruiter was quite aggressive. She didn't even congratulate me on the offer and rudely suggested I "shouldn't consider accepting the offer." In my opinion, accepting an offer should make both parties happy. Her view was that negotiation means the candidate has to concede while the company stays firm. This isn't fair when neither side is willing to compromise.

The whole process was fast and organized. Communication was prompt, which helped things move along. The technical phone screen wasn't too hard. The on-site interviews were pretty standard for software engineering roles, including a mix of behavioral, experience-based, and technical questions. Although it was for a front-end job, the technical questions focused on general CS and JavaScript concepts, not CSS.

So for this senior software engineer role, I went through about 4 or 5 rounds of interviews. I spoke with a project manager, a project lead, a backend dev, a frontend dev, and also HR. The job itself sounded okay at first, the work environment seemed manageable, but honestly, it ended up being a terrible experience. The manager was really strict, and the workload was huge with deadlines that were super tight. We had to get a lot of story points done each sprint, and the manager would really dig into our time estimates. We'd estimate based on our experience, and they'd go check with this senior dev who'd been there forever, and they'd always say it could be done way faster. Then the manager would just change the points. If we questioned it, we'd have to break down every single story point, hour by hour, and justify it. Just finishing one ticket was a nightmare, and the manager was constantly putting us down. It was just zero respect. Eventually, most of the team left, which I found out later when I talked to them.