Sailthru Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
Based on 7 interview experiences · FREE TO READ
Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Sailthru.
Sailthru
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Average Positive experience Accept offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Coding Technical System Design
First, a recruiter called to screen me. Then, I had a 1st technical video screen where we went over my technical experience, Sailthru's tech stack, and the team. The 2nd technical video screen involved one algorithm problem (leetcode easy) that needed hashmaps and one Linux command problem (using grep, awk, sort, etc. for text parsing). The virtual onsite had a system design problem about microservices, databases, event-driven communication, distributed caching, etc., where I had to design one of Sailthru's sub-systems.
Confirmed questions8 questions
- Be ready to discuss your technical background and experience.
- Familiarize yourself with Sailthru's technology stack.
- Learn about the team you might be joining.
Sailthru
Software Engineer
Mid Average Negative experience No offer 5 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Take home Onsite Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Coding Coding
It was the standard procedure. First, a recruiter call, then another developer call where I got technical questions and a remote coding test. Then I went in person. The coordinator took a while to find someone to interview me. Eventually, someone showed up who seemed reluctant and asked me to do a coding problem that I think he made up on the spot. He was quite irritable and snide. After him, I talked to another developer, a woman this time, who asked me to code binary search, and she was nicer.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you write the code for the binary search algorithm?
Sailthru
Software Developer
Entry Easy Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Take home Recruiter call Background check
Interview formats
Coding Behavioral
I finished the code challenge and got a confirmation email the next day. The HR asked for my availability, but after I gave them the days, they ghosted me and never replied. It seems like the HR is super unprofessional.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you solve a simple algorithm problem?
Sailthru Software Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Sailthru interview reports.
“What is the difference between scraping and crawling?”
Read reports →“How can I scrap the name of the author from different pages on the web?”
Read reports →“How can you keep track of duplicate URLs and avoid them from re-crawling?”
Read reports →“How can you rank a web site or a web page?”
Read reports →“What is a ranking function?”
Read report →“Can you write the code for the binary search algorithm?”
Read report →“How to Heapify a heap tree? Can you provide an example for deletion and addition?”
Read report →“Do you know how to scrap a website?”
Read report →“Can you write a flow on how scraping the web work?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 7 Sailthru interview reports.