Vanta interview notes, page 1 of 2

“Yep, it's the one everyone warns you about.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Vanta, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The core logic is simple enough, just track the previous element and skip if it matches the current one.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Vanta, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight into the overdue calculation and nearly forgot to handle the 'not started' case where the target day is before the training even begins.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Vanta, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty classic metrics-tracking prompt but the scope can balloon fast if you're not careful.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Vanta, 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 started with a recursive DFS and it felt right pretty quickly.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Vanta, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I got the basic dedup logic pretty fast but then the flags tripped me up more than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Vanta, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one sprawls.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Vanta, 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 kept waiting for them to ask about something I'd actually done, but they never did.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Vanta, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Part one was fine, just storing logs per test.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Vanta, 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 basically the whole interview in one question.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Vanta, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.