I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Block (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2022
Interview
High level: met with about 9 engineers and other staff in total who all were really pleasant to collaborate with. They made the interview process humane and enjoyable with the correct level of difficulty (IMO).
The only downside is that the recruiter seemed to disappear after the final on-site while earlier really touting how they pride themselves on transparency and rapid feedback.
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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.
