Skip to contentSkip to footer
  • Community
  • Jobs
  • Companies
  • Salaries
  • For Employers
      Notifications

      Loading...

      Elevate your career

      Discover your earning potential, land dream jobs, and share work-life insights anonymously.

      employer cover photo
      employer logo
      employer logo

      Block

      Is this your company?

      About
      Reviews
      Pay & benefits
      Jobs
      Interviews
      Interviews
      Related searches: Block reviews | Block jobs | Block salaries | Block benefits | Block conversations
      Block interviewsBlock Software Engineer interviewsBlock interview


      Glassdoor

      • About / Press
      • Awards
      • Blog
      • Research
      • Contact Us
      • Guides

      Employers

      • Free Employer Account
      • Employer Center
      • Employers Blog

      Information

      • Help
      • Guidelines
      • Terms of Use
      • Privacy & Ad Choices
      • Do Not Sell Or Share My Information
      • Cookie Consent Tool
      • Security

      Work With Us

      • Advertisers
      • Careers
      Download the App

      • Browse by:
      • Companies
      • Jobs
      • Locations
      • Communities
      • Recent Posts

      Copyright © 2008-2026. Glassdoor LLC. "Glassdoor," "Worklife Pro," "Bowls," and logo are proprietary trademarks of Glassdoor LLC.

      Company Bowl sample

      Want the inside scoop on your own company?

      Check out your Company Bowl for anonymous work chats.

      Bowls

      Get actionable career advice tailored to you by joining more bowls.

      Followed companies

      Stay ahead in opportunities and insider tips by following your dream companies.

      Job searches

      Get personalized job recommendations and updates by starting your searches.

      Software Engineer Interview

      Sep 17, 2017
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Block (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2017

      Interview

      The recruiters from square contacted me more than 1 time. I reached out when I started looking for jobs. They set up a time to talk to the recruiters and explain the position and then if you are in san francisco you have 1 telephone/coderpad round. If you are out of san fran, you have 2 tele/coderpad round before they fly you in. The recruiter told me that the telephone screen is a pair programming interview, which is complete farce. The guy just copy pasted 100 lines for a question and then kept working on his computer, his computer would beep all the time and he didnt say a word. I was trying to engage him by explaining my thought process but he couldnt care less. He gave me a hard leetcode question and I couldnt solve it in 45 mins. He asked me to do line justify a given paragraph. I dont know how doing a line justify is related to their business model but again, the interviewer couldnt care less. When the recruiter sends you the email, they would ask you to run your code frequently, but every time I did it, my interviewer was judging me hard. I wouldnt advise anyone to spend hours preparing for pair programming or giving rounds after rounds in this company. If you can clear interview here, you will be able to clear at other places and there are much better companies out there.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Line Justify(search in leetcode)
      Answer question
      13
      avatar
      Block response
      8y
      Hi, Thank you for taking the time to write about your experience interviewing for the Software Engineer role at Square. We were extremely disappointed to read about your interview process — definitely not cool, and we're really sorry. We'll discuss your feedback with the team immediately. We will work to make sure that future interviewers are engaged and helpful in the process. Last year, we implemented a candidate experience survey and we are using those results and Glassdoor feedback to continuously improve our candidate experience. Again, we're very sorry about the interview experience and that you didn’t get an accurate depiction of the life at Square. At Square, we are always striving to provide the best candidate experience possible and your post will help us improve the process. Thank you for sharing and helping us continually improve the interview experience. Best, The Square Talent Team

      Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Block

      Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 16, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Melbourne
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Block (Melbourne)

      Interview

      Inital take home, followed by extension interview, followed by a coding challenge, followed by system design interview. The whole process took 3 months! The interviewers are usually really nice and want you to do your best.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Design an end to end banking system
      Answer question

      Software Engineer Interview

      Feb 6, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Block (New York, NY)

      Interview

      The interviewer was nice, and he is friendly and willing to give hint, the question has 2 follow-ups, it was hard to complete in time. The question was not a typical LeetCode

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      talk about my past experience
      Answer question

      Software Engineer Interview

      Aug 14, 2025
      Anonymous employee
      San Francisco, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Block (San Francisco, CA)

      Interview

      Phone screen and then a full day of interviews. 3 pair programming challenges, a system design review and a prior experience interview. There was also an onsite lunch with a person from the company.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      To design a hotel booking system. Pick any part (backend, frontend, database, api etc) and deepdive into that, explaining the decisions along the way.
      Answer question

      Top companies for "Compensation and Benefits" near you

      avatar
      Amazon
      3.7★Compensation & Benefits
      avatar
      Google
      4.5★Compensation & Benefits
      avatar
      Amazon Web Services
      3.9★Compensation & Benefits
      avatar
      PayPal
      3.7★Compensation & Benefits