Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Blend nel mese di gen 2026
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Candidatura
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Blend nel mese di dic 2021
Colloquio
Overall the interview process was very smooth. I liked the initial Hirining manager round after the online technical screen. It gave me good insight about the team.
During the virtual onsite, having a round with just the demo of the team's application really helped me understand the kind of projects that I could be working on if i join the team.
The system design round was very conversational and very fluid compared to other companies that I have interviews with. Other rounds are pretty standard for a software engineer technical interview.
Overall great experience.
Recruiter -> Engineering Manager -> 2 Technical Rounds -> Verbal Offer -> "the written offer is coming in two days we swear"-> after 1 month of this 2 day promise repeating itself many times, "The budget got cut for your role, the offer is rescinded, sorry."
The Good: Engineering Manager was really cool, he asked some behavioral questions + a theoretical question that wasn't even software specific. Think "how many piano tuners are there in new york city", but it's asking you to re-engineer a specific product to meet a new need.
Technical interviews were good too, very fair, folks were easy to talk with. One round was a System Design interview, the other was a pair coding challenge to "build/scope out a certain application".
The bad: The entire interview process was clouded with misunderstandings. I was told for the engineering manager round and the technical round I'd be doing a Leetcode style test in a coderpad- that was true for *neither* of them.
I was accidentally scheduled with the same person twice, which was apparently a mistake on their part (not a big deal really...)
Most frustrating of all - I was extended a verbal offer (great!), and told I'd get the written offer end of day or start of next week. That didn't happen, and they kept punting that date every 2-3 days... until a full month later, I was told they cut the funding for the role.
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An open ended question about how you would redesign/modify a certain existing product, to meet a new requirement. Not software related- and they're more interested in your thought process.
System Design: Design an app similar to [APP]. Use Excalidraw to chart it out.
I didn't mention which here, but there is another glassdoor review here that lists the specific app, and that *is* the one I was asked to make.
Pair code, in a language of your choice, a console program that can do (X) thing. The app had 1-2 tricky algorithmic parts but it was just as much an exercise in code quality, moreso than solving it. He had us spend some time doing a "code review" as well to see how I'd clean it up/modify it if I had time.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite segnalazione di un dipendente. La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Blend nel mese di ott 2025
Colloquio
Smooth interview process, I spoke with hiring manager, did a systems interview, a coding interview, and a behavioral interview. Everyone was very friendly and easy to talk to. Process moved along quickly.
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Coding question was reasonable and interviewer was interesting in talking through the solution, not just some leetcode question.