SoFi interview notes, page 1 of 7

“I knew it was backtracking pretty fast, which was a relief.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The skeleton felt manageable until I realized the grader was checking string output character by character.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This tripped me up a bit because the hardest part isn't the story itself, it's convincing them you actually owned it and didn't just tag along.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership 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 reach for fetch inside an async function and I did that fine, but I fumbled the button disable logic.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was the whole interview, one big question.” The rest of the author's notes on Frontend Engineer interview at SoFi, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I fumbled around for a story at first because most of my examples were either too technical or didn't really show user advocacy in a clear way.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The no-JS constraint was the whole point and I almost glossed over it.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the scroll listener approach and it felt fine until they asked how I'd prevent firing 40 requests per second while someone drags the scrollbar.” The rest of the author's notes on Frontend Engineer interview at SoFi, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This went longer than I thought it would.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was a lot.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at SoFi, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.