Interview Timeline

Initial Contact:

• HR reached out via LinkedIn on 6/15/2026 to schedule interviews.

Round 1: Virtual Onsite (CodeCraft)

• Date: 6/23/2026
• Process: Technical coding interview.
• Problem: Dasher Pay (a known problem with available solutions online).
• Follow-up: How to handle peak hour Dasher double pay rate.
• Additional Question: Asked verbally about handling upstream API failures (suggested solutions: backoff with jitter, circuit breaker).
• Outcome: Passed this round.

Final Rounds: Virtual Onsite (4 rounds)

• Dates: 7/7-7/8/2026
• Rounds:
  • AI Code Craft
  • Debugging Round
  • Engineering Values + Hiring Manager Talk
  • System Design + Domain Knowledge
• Overall Experience: Each interviewer was from a different team, making it challenging to align with their technical backgrounds and for them to follow my past projects.