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      Staff Software Engineer Interview

      11 Oct 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Saildrone in Oct 2024

      Interview

      Had a nice chat with head of HR/recruiting in which we discussed whether or not there was a possible fit. I had a lot of experience in what they were looking for, so it seemed like a good match, I then met with the director of engineering, with whom I had a very engaging and positive discussion about the the job requirements and expectations. I really felt I was perfect fit for this job and there was enthusiasm all around. I was then given a take-home design exercise which I completed over the course of the next 3 days, spending roughly 3-4 hours per day on it. I followed up with both the HR and Director about how grateful and excited I was about this opportunity. The next week I got a response from HR saying they were moving on with other candidates. No feedback, nothing else. It was very unprofessional and very hurtful, considering all the time and effort I spent on this. I knew of all the negative feedback this company had going into it, and now I regret wasting my time with them.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      # Architecture Challenge Flightaware24 provides a free iOS and Android application tracking all of the airplane flights in the world. For this assignment, let's reverse engineer two features in particular on the main view. * The first is showing a live view of all flights within the bounds of the home screen. * For the second feature, once selecting a flight, a timeseries history of the route (location, altitude, and airspeed) can be shown, along with some metadata about the flight (Airline, Flight Number, Departing Airport, Arriving Airport, etc.). Further windows can also show a graph of the timeseries data. ![Home screen](/images/global_view.png) ![Specific flight map](/images/flight_route_map.png) ![Timeseries Graph](/images/timeseries_graph.png) Please design/reverse engineer how the data pipeline flow works for these two features. As an input, assume a stream of live data is available for every flight airborne around the world and is providing a sample per flight once every 5 seconds. All of the data needed is in those streams. As the output, an HTTP API that the UI polls/pulls from is sufficient. External customers/clients must be able to access the data without much lag (return in 100's of milliseconds). The output of this exercise is a design document. No specific code is required. Use any methods to convey your design, including any diagrams and/or pseudocode. Most importantly, please enumerate the reasoning behind specific design, data model, and data storage/query engine choices. How do you store the data to best match ingest and access patterns? An important part of the engineering process at Saildrone is a fleshed out design doc that gets reviewed by the team before starting a large project. This assignment helps us understand your data architecture skills and how you would work/communicate in this environment. # Submission Please submit a pull request to Github with your completed code submission and design document to the private repository set up for you.
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      Other Staff Software Engineer interview reviews for Saildrone

      Staff Software Engineer Interview

      11 Apr 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Alameda, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Saildrone (Alameda, CA) in Apr 2026

      Interview

      After joining the Teams call, the interviewer greeted the recruiter then jumped right into a monologue. After 6 and 1/2 minutes I interrupted at what looked like a natural pause and introduced myself while saying he didn't ask for my name. Afterwards in the most awkward interaction I've ever had in an interview, he insisted that he greeted me then apologized for wasting my time, ending the call with "the vibes are off". It was easily the funniest and least professional interviewing experience of my life.
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