Scale Software Engineer Interview Questions
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Scale
Software Engineer
Senior Average Positive experience Accept offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Coding
So I got contacted on LinkedIn by a recruiter, and we had an initial chat about my background and if I'd be a good fit. Then I did a technical phone screen with a senior engineer. After that, I met with the hiring manager to talk about my past work/projects and answer some behavioral questions. The final loop was a mix of mostly technical stuff and some behavioral questions.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Can you discuss your previous work and projects?
- Do you have any behavioral questions to ask?
Scale
Software Engineer
Entry Average Positive experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Take home Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Technical
Recruiting call followed by an online assessment. The assessment involves building a task scheduler. First, create a basic scheduling service to return the next best task. Then, add task dependencies. Finally, consider scaling and edge cases. You should also brush up on data structures, specifically how to find the highest priority item, how to map relationships, and practice incremental development.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Why do you want to work at scale?
Scale
Software Engineer
Mid Difficult Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Technical screen Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Behavioral Technical
It was many rounds of implementation heavy coding, honestly got tiring and boring. Plus behavioral and debugging round, which was excruciating. The work they were talking about sounded extremely boring and maybe unethical. Some interviewers were good but some just turned their camera off and were silent the whole for the coding round. I would not work here if I received the offer.
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Scale Software Engineer Interview Questions
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“Given a graph, remove a node chosen uniformly at random and verify if it was subsequently reinserted.”
Read reports →“Implement a card game given some python class and criteria.”
Read reports →“Can you write a program to output the characters of a given word sorted by frequency? For example, 'tree' should become 'eert'.”
Read reports →“How would you create a task scheduler using Python?”
Read reports →“Could you implement a task scheduler and also print out the task scheduling and running logs for it?”
Read report →“Can you solve this technical question about a card game?”
Read report →“Can you create an application for a game?”
Read report →“How would you fix TDD in a ML environment?”
Read report →“For a graph problem where you're given a list of lists, each representing a question with a boolean at index 0 (answered status) and a list of indices at index 1 (dependencies), how would you determine which questions to render? A question should be rendered if it's answered and all its dependencies are also rendered. What's the approach for handling situations where dependent questions might not appear in the correct order?”
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