I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Vanta in May 2025
Interview
Vanta’s interviews follow a standard software engineering format, including LeetCode-style coding, system design, and behavioral questions. Be prepared to discuss your past experience in depth. The recruiter is helpful and will prep you before each round, which makes the process feel organized and supportive. Overall, it was a positive experience. The recruiter was communicative and accommodating, even expediting the process to fit my interview schedule. The offer was competitive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I cannot share the specifics but be prepare for LeetCode-style coding, system design, and behavioral questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Vanta (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2026
Interview
Really enjoyed the conversations, had a leetcode style phone interview. Onsite was 50% behavioral and 50% technical. System design + backend practical. Backend practical was coding plus understanding of distributed systems.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Vanta in Feb 2026
Interview
Talked to the recruiter and then scheduled a tech interview. The tech interview was 45 minutes with a senior engineer, but as usual my ADHD stepped up and doomed spiraled my brain into locking up. I didn't even remember that I have half a dozen working examples on my GitHub. "Code testing" so messed up for our career choice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Build a recursive function. I still can't believe this is used as an interview question. In my 25+ years as a software engineer, I can count the number of times I have use one on one hand. Actually on half a hand... There's is always a better choice than recursion.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Vanta in Jan 2026
Interview
I had a phone call with recruiter after which they scheduled a leetcode style coding problem for 1 hour. I am not certain if they had expectation of solving 2 problems in 1 hour because there was something being said about first we will solve this problem.
In any case, the 1st problem was on topological sorting and I solved it in python completely. At the end, I enevr got sent to next stage even after solving a medium difficulty problem involving topological sort not just some array sorting. I found that very strange and quite disappointing from interviewing standpoint.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode style question that involved topological sorting
