University of Wisconsin-Madison · Computer Science
3rd year · 2 past internships
Hard Interview
TechnicalMultiple roundsBehavioralVirtual
Behavioral was honestly the most laid back part of the whole thing. Recruiter reached out first, 20 min call. Karat had a medium array problem and a follow up on edge cases. Final round was 3 sessions: OOP design for a data store, a graph DSA question then behavioral on how I learn new tech
Questions Asked
1.“Given a binary search tree, find the kth smallest element”
Software Engineer
New York, NY
Winter 2026Pending Outcome
Virginia Tech · Computer Science
3rd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 1 past internship
Average Interview
TechnicalMultiple roundsBehavioralVirtual
Karat screen went fine. Final round was three consecutive sessions. Object oriented programming design were alright but behavioral was weird, interviewer kept using hypotheticals instead of past experience questions
Questions Asked
1.“Count the number of distinct islands in a 2D grid”
2.“Tell me about a time you estimated a project poorly. What happened?”
Software Engineer
Summer 2026No Offer
Arizona State University · Computer Science
2nd year · 0 past internships
BehavioralResume Review
Phone screen was basically a resume-review and behavioural questions. Why company as well
Software Engineer
New York, NY
Summer 2026No Offer
Penn State University · Computer Science
1st year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 0 past internships
Hard Interview
TechnicalMultiple rounds
Karat interview first, binary tree path sum variant. Then three rounds with the team. OOP round wanted a generic cache with thread safety and I struggled with concurrency. Got cut after that
Questions Asked
1.“Design a distributed pub-sub messaging system at scale”