I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Block (Seattle, WA) in May 2021
Interview
Started with a quick chat with the recruiter on my background and what I’m looking for. She used this info to determine if the spot I applied for would be a good fit (it was). I went thru the tech phone screen which was a question asked in stages. I managed to get thru 4 stages here with a test-driven approach without too many issues.
I was then invited to the onsite. They did a good job accelerating scheduling since I had a few offers extended to me already. The paired programming rounds were all asked in stages, similar to the tech screen. I did well on all the paired programming interviews (making it past the 3rd or 4th stage each round) and okay on the system design and past experience QA rounds. The latter two rounds are more open-ended so it’s sometimes difficult to gauge what the interviewers are looking for. From talking with the hiring manager, they seemed to want more frontend skills on the team. I happened to do extremely well on the frontend round(finished early and even noticed a mistake in the prompt on the last task). It seemed to be a good fit so they offered me at the level I was looking for.
Overall, it was my favorite interview process compared to all the other more Leetcode-style interviews I did.
I applied online. I interviewed at Block in Oct 2025
Interview
I had a call with their recruiter first, talked about my past experience and what I'm look in for in my next role. Then had a technical front-end screening with two engineers where I needed to build an application. I thought I did well, I was able to implement a working app, but I did not pass. Not further feedback was given.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a memory game in any JS framework or vanilla JS. You need to implement this game based on some demo app that you can play around with before hand. You need to implement the HTML/CSS and JS all from scratch. The game has the following behavior: you need to display N x N cards in a grid lay out. The number of N should be configurable by the user through a slider. When the user clicks a "start" button, N cards a highlighted for 2-3 seconds. Then the user needs to click on the cards that were highlighted. If the user clicks on the correct card, it changes the color to green, otherwise it changes to red. If all the initially highlighted cards are clicked the game is over. What to watch out for: you need to track the cards that were clicked in the grid, you need pick N random cards to be highlighted for each round of the game. You need to make sure the gird of N cards can be increased and reduced. It's not enough that the app works, you also need to write clean/readable code. You have about 40 minutes to implement this, and you need to talk through your work.
Long process. System design felt like I aced it but they didn't pass me. It was the classic design a hotel booking platform question. They put you through a lot of rounds up front.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Block in Feb 2025
Interview
Two rounds: the first was a technical screen and hiring manager interview, and the second round was 5 interviews (2 coding, 1 system design, 1 technical project review, 1 leadership interview)
