I applied online. I interviewed at Ivo (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2026
Interview
Initial screening is a google form of 40 minutes.
15 minute call with CTO.
Zoom/Google Voice technical interview with an engineer.
Take home assessment.
Onsite tech interview + culture fit interviews.
The first part was a short form interview online through an app called quilgo. The second part was a short meet with the CTO, where we discussed basic things. After, it was a long technical interview followed by an onsite way after.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Ivo in Mar 2026
Interview
The process was fast but scrappy, and HR scheduled some rounds only to change up the structure of interviews later. I did well on technical and behavioral rounds, all the way until the onsite and CEO call after, however the company decided to not extend an offer due to technical performance issues 2 rounds prior to the end. Wasted both our times when they knew they didn't want to extend the offer earlier.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical interview coding: implement tic-tac-toe
Onsite interview coding: parse json with cryptocurrency names and exchange rates, construct a graph between nodes, and perform shortest cost traversal to find most efficient path from one currency to next. Subsequent parts involve implementing support for custom amounts ( function provided) and implementing an equation from a cyclic arbitrage paper.
