Upstart Software Engineer interview questions

“The first/last character constraint is what makes this tractable when vocab has anagram pairs like 'pears' and 'spear'.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The event encoding is what gets you first.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Went with in-order traversal pretty quickly since BST in-order gives you sorted order.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Started with the brute force nested loop thing because my brain just goes there first.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Seemed simple and mostly was.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Took me a second to realize the tricky part isn't the arithmetic, it's the digit extraction and handling the case where the two numbers have different lengths.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Felt almost too easy at first so I kept waiting for a twist that never came.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Seemed simple at first and I went straight to a streams solution.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The AI tooling part threw me a bit because most coding rounds punish you for not writing everything by hand.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The pairing angle is what trips people up here.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Upstart, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.