Software Engineer Staff Interview Questions

Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Calm

3.2★

Feb 19, 2025

Design a URL shortner like bitly

Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Sigma Computing

3.5★

Feb 13, 2024

Implement some kind of database joins on the provided data structures.

Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Scribe

4.7★

Nov 13, 2024

Describe one of your problems from previous experience.

Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at ClickUp

3.9★

Oct 10, 2022

Describe an experience where you received negative feedback.

Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Discord

4.1★

Apr 1, 2025

Basic questions about my experience and background. They didn't ask me anything during the tech screen.

Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Valence

4.1★

Oct 28, 2025

Asked me about prior feedback which I found difficult during the behavioral interview. This would have been uncomfortable but the interviewer really facilitated our discussion and it made it easy for me to contextualize the feedback and discuss it transparently.

Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Coinbase

3.6★

Nov 24, 2021

Phone Screen: Coding and High level system design. Hiring Manager Screen Behavioural Questions. System Design Reverse System Design

Snr Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Karius

3.4★

Oct 4, 2024

What's the most complex problem you've had to solve?

Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Modern Health

3.4★

Jul 23, 2025

A debugging/optimization session on play code, a "let's talk about how to implement this workflow" session, an exercise to quickly implement a simple UI.

Staff Software Engineer (Batch Infrastructure)

Interviewed at Affirm

3.9★

Apr 16, 2024

Big O concept of algo