Manager Phone interview talking about past experience, pretty standard stuff
The next round was a coding challenge that you did with one of their engineers. Involved parsing some data and rendering this data on a UI.
The final round was 3 technical interviews and 1 competency-based interview.
Overall it was a very good process. Everybody I met was friendly. The recruiter was great to communicate every step of the way. The technical rounds were challenging but reasonable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Parse some data and render this in a React UI
- Algorithm questions based on strings
- Systems design for a restaurant based app
Thank you for sharing this review! I'm thrilled to hear you had a positive interview experience and that you felt supported throughout the process. Welcome to the Toast team- we're excited to have you! - Justin English, Associate Manager, Technical Talent Acquisition
No offer
Positive experience
Average interview
Application
I applied online. I interviewed at Toast Inc (Bengaluru) in Apr 2026
Interview
I don't remember how I applied but I got call from HR, after initial phone screening they gave time slot to choose for interview. 1st round was HLD which was good and I passed. For next round they wanted 3 different slots. 2nd round was DSA which was also good and was on DFS. 3rd round code review which also went well. 4th round I messed up a bit in end but overall it was good. After that they scheduled 5th round and that was managerial round and that was very good. I was hopping for +ve feedback overall but got call from HR that review is avg and they will let me know in some days. After 1 week I followed up but no response and after call they told not selected as review was mixed.
If the pas round affect the overall rating then why to give hope. But overall the interview experience was good. Interviewers were very helpful.
I would love to apply again in future and would love to work with them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Restaurant System
Menu traversal (DFS)
Code review
The whole process seemed like a waste of time. When the recruiter initially reached out to me they mentioned that they already had other candidates that passed the first round. Knowing this they scheduled out my first round 3 weeks later. I was really confused by this and emailed to clarify if we were still in alignment since others are further along in the process. They said it was fine since team is slowing down for the holidays. They closed the role the day before my interview. What was the point in stringing me along like that?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Toast Inc
Interview
I had a weird interview experience with Toast. Unlike big techs, seems like they follow a yes/no binary template where you are expected to say the exact thing that have in their checklist rather than evaluating candidate’s problem solving, leadership, architecture skills. For example, they don’t care about the code logic, they just want a running code. They don’t care about the optimal system design solution, they want an exact SQL query. May be that is working out for them but that kind of yes/no interview style makes more luck dependent than actual skill evaluation.
Good thing is that the recruiter gave a transparent feedback.
