Toast Inc Software Engineer Interview Questions
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First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Toast Inc.
Toast Inc
Software Engineer
Senior Average Neutral experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Coding System Design Behavioral
My interview experience at Toast was a bit unusual compared to big tech companies. It felt like they have this strict binary yes/no checklist, and you're supposed to say exactly what's on it, instead of really showing your problem-solving, leadership, or architecture skills. For instance, they don't really care about the logic behind your code, just that it runs. And for system design, they're not looking for the best solution, but a specific SQL query. While this might work for them, this kind of interview style relies more on luck than actual skill. On the plus side, the recruiter was really upfront with feedback.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you introduce yourself?
Toast Inc
Software Engineer - Android
Mid Average Positive experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral
Booking interviews was super easy with a link they sent, letting me pick a time that worked. The technical partner I spoke with was really clear and gave me all the info I needed, and it was a nice chat. Then, I had a technical interview with a senior Android engineer where we did some coding and talked about different things. Sadly, they told me the role was already filled even though my technical interview went well. I'm hoping for another chance with them.
Confirmed questions4 questions
- Discuss your experience with Jetpack Compose.
- What are your strategies for Android Testing?
- Explain Clean Architecture in the context of Android.
Toast Inc
Software Engineer
Entry Easy Neutral experience No offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Technical screen Onsite Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral
The interview experience was really smooth and the recruitment team was super responsive and nice to talk to. It started with a quick screening call, then a technical interview where I had to solve a LeetCode-style problem. The final stage had two technical interviews and two behavioral interviews with the Engineering Manager and Project Manager. It was mostly good, though the second technical interview in the final round was a bit tough because I had some trouble understanding the interviewer's English, and we spent a good chunk of time discussing a minor detail in my code, which wasn't the most productive use of time. But otherwise, it was a positive and respectful process, and I'm glad I got to go through it.
Confirmed questions1 question
- For the first technical round, the question was: Given an array representing stock prices on each day, find the best time to buy and sell to maximize profit.
Toast Inc Software Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Toast Inc interview reports.
“Write a function to check if a menu contains a specific item, given menu classes.”
Read reports →“Can you reverse the words in a string while ensuring punctuation stays in its original position? For example, "Hello, world!" should become "world, Hello!"”
Read reports →“Write code to check if a string is a palindrome, and discuss its space and time complexity.”
Read reports →“How would you reverse the words in a string while keeping punctuation in its original place?”
Read reports →“Could you write a function that takes a tree-like graph and returns a hashset where the keys are the roots and the values are arrays of leaf nodes belonging to each root?”
Read report →“What are the optimal buy and sell prices for a stock given a list of prices and one buy/sell option?”
Read report →“Given a list of stock prices ordered by time (1-second intervals), create a method to find the maximum profit achievable by buying and selling only once, with the constraint that the buy and sell times must be at least five seconds apart. If no profit is possible, return 0.”
Read report →“Can you explain why you included the key prop in your HTML tag when using React JSX?”
Read report →“Build a screen to fetch and display a list from a mock API, ensuring end-to-end integration with MVVM, clean architecture, separation, testability, and dependency injection.”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 136 Toast Inc interview reports.