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      Software Engineer Interview

      Nov 9, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Fremont, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at NewsBreak (Fremont, CA) in Nov 2024

      Interview

      Had a call with a recruiter, could barely understand their English. Followed by a tech screen with an easy LC question. I provided a perfect solution which I later verified. No follow up for a couple of days. Reaching out to the recruiter resulted in a standard rejection email.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      LC easy level question asked.
      Answer question

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      Software Engineer Interview

      Nov 7, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Mountain View, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at NewsBreak (Mountain View, CA)

      Interview

      First round HR call Second round Phone screen Final round In person onsite Friendly interviewers, system design was quite difficult with domain knowledge, which required previous working experiences to answer.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      A question similar to leetcode num islands.
      Answer question

      Software Engineer Interview

      Nov 13, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Mountain View, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at NewsBreak (Mountain View, CA) in Nov 2025

      Interview

      Pretty standard - Initial Call with Recruiter to talk about background and technical experience, then had technical interview with engineer who worked at the company. The person didn't really seem that engaged

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Asked a few basic website questions like how do users sees webpage on a browser, then asked me a Leetcode DSA in Javascript
      Answer question

      Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 16, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at NewsBreak in Jul 2025

      Interview

      Got an email from a recruiter to schedule an interview. Sent an email to interviewer what I would be tested on a week prior... nothing. So I prepared DSA based on comments from glassdoor and got very confident in my LC. The interviewer straight assumed I spoke Chinese and talked to me in Chinese... I was a little surprised. First started with introducing my background and a deep dive into the projects. Then he asked me an easy SQL question. I have not done SQL in a while... It totally caught me off-guard and needed to brush on the syntax and various functions. Was a total disaster and barely finished the query with lots of help from the interviewer. The problem was very straightforward but I was just not in a good shape for SQL. Terrible experience. If you want to test the candidate, at least let them prepare properly for the interview and not expect them to know everything without preparation. Total waste of time.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Given a table for records of ad fill_rates, return the records that has > 10% decrease fill_rate compared to the previous day. fill_rates table: date ad fill_rate ------------------------------------ 01-01 A 20 01-02 A 10 01-01 B 40 01-02 B 5 ...
      1 Answer

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      • Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at NewsBreak with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 30.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 12 days to get hired, when considering 15 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at NewsBreak overall takes an average of 20 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at NewsBreak as a Software Engineer according to 15 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  35%

        One on one interview:  30%

        Skills test:  25%

        Group panel interview:  5%

        Background check:  5%

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