I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Candid Health
Interview
1. Recruiter call
2. Technical phone screen interview
3. Onsite: technical interview (60 min), behavioral interview (45 min), system design interview (60 min), call with senior leadership team (90 min)
They rejected me after the system design and then cancelled the senior leader call right after. They said it would be collaborative to come up with a working design, but the interviewer just asked me questions and silently judged my response; there was no discussion on possible tradeoffs or deeper technical conversations.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Design a signaling tool that registers/deregisters callback functions; keep a set of active callback functions.
Given an existing order flow system of manual actions (customer makes order -> order is processed -> order is billed -> order is shipped). At each step, a team member manually uploads a file to a shared filesystem and sends it to the next stage. Design a supporting order flow system without making changes to the existing system.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Candid Health (Denver, CO) in Apr 2026
Interview
The process was quick, technical call with recruiter to talk about the basics. Then the next was a 'collaborative' coding assessment which I was told was more focused on how you think and problem solve than anything else. The interviewer was stumped by several of my clarifying questions to the coding problem but I was not moved forward after the coding round despite answering his questions correctly. I am unsure if it was embarrassing for him or what I did wrong but they would not provide me that feedback.
Nice company, worked through coding exercise, and system design review was tough. Interviewed over a few weeks, Full-Stack, had some issues with explaining the full system, but ultimately came down to domain experience.
I applied online. I interviewed at Candid Health in Jan 2026
Interview
Initial screening then a technical round. I only made it to the technical round. I solved the challenge but I guess I didn't solve it exactly how he wanted? These types of coding challenges seem irrelevant in this day and age especially if you solve the challenge.