I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Vanta in Jun 2025
Interview
They give you a very lengthy problem description that essentially boils down to writing ~4-5 if-statements to verify different conditions that are present in the problem statement. So brush up on your reading speed and comprehension and don't worry too much about complex leetcode problems. My code passed the test cases within the allotted time given, but I think my interviewer was mostly focused on writing the solution that they expected and couldn't allow me to write different code than they expected. So you either code exactly what they expect or you fail. Probably not the kind of place you want to work. After answering this part, there was a followup where they asked me to write pseudo code since most candidates run out of time writing actual code. So I started writing pseudo code but it just turned into fully functioning actual code. But I got an email the next day about a rejection, so I don't know what they want.
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I applied online. I interviewed at Vanta (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2026
Interview
Really enjoyed the conversations, had a leetcode style phone interview. Onsite was 50% behavioral and 50% technical. System design + backend practical. Backend practical was coding plus understanding of distributed systems.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Vanta in Feb 2026
Interview
Talked to the recruiter and then scheduled a tech interview. The tech interview was 45 minutes with a senior engineer, but as usual my ADHD stepped up and doomed spiraled my brain into locking up. I didn't even remember that I have half a dozen working examples on my GitHub. "Code testing" so messed up for our career choice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Build a recursive function. I still can't believe this is used as an interview question. In my 25+ years as a software engineer, I can count the number of times I have use one on one hand. Actually on half a hand... There's is always a better choice than recursion.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Vanta in Jan 2026
Interview
I had a phone call with recruiter after which they scheduled a leetcode style coding problem for 1 hour. I am not certain if they had expectation of solving 2 problems in 1 hour because there was something being said about first we will solve this problem.
In any case, the 1st problem was on topological sorting and I solved it in python completely. At the end, I enevr got sent to next stage even after solving a medium difficulty problem involving topological sort not just some array sorting. I found that very strange and quite disappointing from interviewing standpoint.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode style question that involved topological sorting