I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Block
Interview
Interview consisted of intro call with recruiter, tech screen (pair programming), and onsite (3x pair programming, sys design, past experience). The pair programming questions were not LC Q's but progression based and were actually quite fun to work through. I didn't ace all the questions, for some it was enough to at least complete majority of the parts and talk through last part within the ~50 min time limit.
Problems were at most equivalent to medium LC. The onsite can be exhausting when having 3 50min pair programming sessions back to back on top of the other sessions with a single short break.
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Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Block
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.
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
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.
