I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Taboola in Nov 2025
No offer
Neutral experience
Average interview
Application
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Taboola (Pasadena, CA) in Dec 2015
Interview
The first part was a phone screen with the office manager. For this one, only general background information and soft questions were discussed. The second part was a coding challenge. The third part was a phone screen with the lead engineer who seemed pretty nice and agreeable. The latter phone screen was basically about choices made in implementing the coding challenge and was mostly a typical software engineering interview to gauge your general knowledge set and background.
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It was the basic software engineering phone interview. Soft questions such as 'Tell me about your background to some technical questions' such as 'What are some examples of data structures and when would you use them type of deal'.
1:30 hours, first half deep dive on a project you worked on. second half coding questions. Weirdly, the stream reading question did not feel very related to Taboola's business itself.
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- given N, print first N lines from a stream (reads line after line, ending at null)
- given N, print last N lines from a stream (requires queue N size to save last N lines)
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Taboola (Israel) in Nov 2025
Interview
The interview process for Taboola began with a presentation of a relevant project I have worked on lately, describing my contribution to it and its impact.
The session continued with a LeetCode-style coding challenge on strings and arrays, testing algorithmic efficiency and code clarity within time limits.
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Question 1
Given an array and an integer n, output the first n elements.
came for couple of hours to build a project on their own computer, after that we sat together and did together code review. they were quiet nice and quiet polite
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to build a system that gets clicks all over the world