Maven Clinic Interview Questions & Experiences

Maven Clinic·Backend Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jul 2026

Coding round for a backend engineer role at Mavenclinic. The main problem was a pagination algorithm for provider listings, which sounds deceptively manageable until you get into the edge cases, and then they pushed into complexity analysis and two follow-ups that required pretty different thinking.

Build a function that paginates a pre-sorted list of telehealth provider listings into pages of size 5, ensuring at most one listing per provider per page when possible, preserving original order, and allowing provider repeats only when needed to fill a page.
What is the time and space complexity of your pagination algorithm?
How would you modify the algorithm if high-scoring providers were allowed to appear more than once on the same page?
How would you implement a memory-efficient streaming version of this algorithm for roughly 150 million listings that don't fit in memory?

“The core logic isn't hard to describe but I fumbled the implementation a bit.”

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Maven Clinic·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jul 2026

Interviewed for a software engineer role at Mavenclinic and got a scheduling/interval problem with a twist I didn't fully anticipate. Pretty straightforward coding round but the break_time wrinkle added enough complexity to make me second-guess my initial approach.

Given a list of appointment intervals in HHMM format and a mandatory minimum break time between consecutive appointments, write a function that returns true if a person can attend all appointments without overlap or insufficient gaps.

“My first instinct was to sort by start time and check for overlaps, which is the standard interval problem.”

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Maven Clinic·Backend Engineer·Onsite - System Design / Architecture

Jun 2026

System design round at Maven Clinic for a backend role. The whole thing was focused on building a therapist marketplace, which sounds straightforward until you start pulling on the HIPAA thread and the matching logic gets complicated fast.

Design a marketplace system that matches patients with therapists, covering the full flow from intake and profile setup through ranked recommendations, booking, messaging, and reviews.
How would you handle HIPAA and PHI compliance in this architecture, including audit logging?
How would you prevent double-booking when multiple patients try to book the same therapist slot at the same time?
Walk through your approach to the matching and ranking logic, specifically how you'd combine hard filters with softer scoring signals like specialty fit or past outcomes.
How would you keep therapist availability data fresh and consistent across the search index and the booking system?

“This is a big one and I spent probably too long on the intake form side before they nudged me toward the matching engine.”

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Maven Clinic·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jun 2026

Maven Clinic system design question focused on a paginated listing problem with a diversity constraint. Single question, pretty deep, took up most of the session.

You have a pre-sorted list of clinic records (each with a payer_id, listing_id, rating, and other fields). Paginate them into pages of x items, maximizing payer_id diversity per page so the same payer doesn't appear twice on a page if avoidable. Describe your algorithm, its time complexity, and how you handle the edge case where one payer has more records than remaining page slots.

“I went with a greedy approach: iterate through the sorted list and fill each page slot with the next record whose payer_id isn't already on that page.”

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Maven Clinic·Backend Engineer·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership

Jun 2026

Behavioral round for a backend role at Maven Clinic. Pretty standard stuff but the one thing people don't warn you about is how much it overlaps with the project deep-dive, so if you go in with the same story for both you'll feel it.

Tell me about a project you're most proud of and why.
Describe a time you had a conflict with a coworker or manager and how you handled it.
Walk me through a time you had to make a difficult trade-off under a tight deadline.
Tell me about a time you received critical feedback. What did you do with it?
Describe a time you drove a cross-team initiative without having any formal authority over the people involved.
What's drawing you to this role and this team specifically?

“I picked something technically meaty but in hindsight that was the wrong call for this round.”

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Maven Clinic·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026

Got a graph problem at Maven Clinic for a software engineer role. One question, but it had enough layers to keep me busy for the whole session.

You're given a list of directed currency exchange rates (e.g. CAD to USD = 0.88, USD to JPY = 110). Given a source currency, a target currency, and an amount, return the converted amount rounded to 3 decimal places. Use the shortest path in terms of number of hops, and return None if no path exists.

“I recognized the graph angle pretty fast, currencies as nodes and rates as weighted directed edges.”

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Maven Clinic·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026

Maven Clinic coding screen for a software engineer role. One problem, a twist on the classic meeting rooms question, but with a mandatory break time between meetings and a non-trivial time format to deal with.

Given an array of meeting intervals in HHMM integer format and a required break duration in minutes, determine whether a person can attend all meetings while maintaining at least that break between consecutive meetings.

“The sorting part was fine.”

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Maven Clinic·Backend Engineer·Onsite - System Design / Architecture

May 2026

System design round at Mavenclinic for a backend engineer role, focused entirely on building a therapist-patient matching marketplace. Dense problem with a lot of moving parts, from search and ranking to booking consistency and HIPAA-adjacent compliance concerns.

Design the backend for a marketplace that matches patients with therapists, covering search, booking, availability, and ranking.
How would you handle search and ranking of therapists for a given patient, considering specialty, insurance, location, language, modality, price, and availability?
How do you prevent double booking and deal with stale availability data?
Walk through the API design for booking, cancellation, and waitlists.
What privacy and compliance considerations apply here, given that this is sensitive health data?
How would you enforce region and licensure constraints so therapists only appear for patients they're legally allowed to treat?
How would you scale this system as the platform grows in users and therapists?

“Big open-ended prompt.”

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Maven Clinic·Software Engineer·Onsite - System Design / Architecture

May 2026

System design round at Maven Clinic for a software engineer role. The whole thing was focused on one meaty problem and they really wanted to see how deep you could go on the concurrency and data modeling side.

Design an appointment booking system for a service like a clinic or salon. Walk through the data model, how you'd detect scheduling conflicts, and how you'd prevent double-booking under concurrent requests.
How would you handle time zones across providers and customers in this system?
How would you scale the read and write paths for this booking system under high load?
How would you integrate notifications and reminders into this system, and how would you handle external calendar sync?

“I started with the data model which felt like the right move, Provider, Customer, AvailabilityRule, Appointment.”

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Maven Clinic·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

May 2026

Maven Clinic coding round, came up in what felt like a follow-up to the classic meeting rooms problem family. One question, greedy solution, pretty standard stuff if you've seen interval problems before.

Given an array of meeting time intervals, what is the minimum number of intervals you need to remove so that no two remaining intervals overlap?

“Knew this one from grinding interval problems.”

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