ElevenLabs

“Pretty standard opener.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ElevenLabs, Recruiter / HR Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The Excel angle threw me a bit because I spent too long thinking about import/export compatibility instead of the actual state machine underneath.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ElevenLabs, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Got it done.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ElevenLabs, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The timestamp angle is what tripped me up at first.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ElevenLabs, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I spent the first minute just staring at it.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ElevenLabs, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to just poll the audio element's currentTime on a short interval and map it against word timestamps.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ElevenLabs, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is the kind of open-ended design question where you can go in ten directions and none of them feel wrong, which is the problem.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at ElevenLabs, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Wasn't expecting this at all for a SWE interview.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at ElevenLabs, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.