Sliding window problem on arrays to start, solved it in Python and we spent the rest of the time walking through my projects. Second round was a system design question about real time notifications at scale, interviewer was helpful when I got stuck on the fanout logic. Whole process took about 3 weeks.
Software Engineer
Fall 2025
No Offer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Computer Science
3rd year · 3.3-3.6 · 1 past internship
TechnicalVirtualPoor Communication
Tree problem, lowest common ancestor with extra constraints. Missed an edge case. Made it to the technical screen after a phone call but recruiter never followed up
Software Engineer
Summer 2026
No Offer
University of Michigan · Computer Science
2nd year · 2.9-3.2 · 0 past internships
Technical
Recruiter call was fast, 15 min tops. Then they sent a HackerRank with two medium problems on string manipulation and graph traversal. They passed 3 weeks later with no feedback