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      Staff Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 14, 2023
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Retool (San Francisco, CA) in May 2023

      Interview

      Typical SWE interview process, screen, 1h pairing x2, system design. Applied to a frontend position, not a single question however was about frontend and of course at the end of the interview the company had zero signal on my actual skillset. Went through the whole process, recruiters then stopped responding. Not a word after the last interview. Waste of time.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Given an answer word and a guess word, return an array of length 5 that determines the result of the guess. This array will return "G" for green if the guessed letter is at the same index of the answer, "Y" for yellow if the guessed letter is in the answer (but not at the same index) and "_" otherwise.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Build SQL query execution engine to run parsed SQL statements against a set of data, stored as records of keys and values.
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Come up with a syntax for user input to the cells that supports the following requirements: - Ability to make a cell equal to some function of some other cells - Support data types: strings, numbers, booleans, null (different from empty string) - One sheet per view
      Answer question

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      • Candidates applying for Staff Software Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Retool overall takes an average of 24 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Retool as a Staff Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  33%

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        Skills test:  33%

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