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Updated Nov 13, 2023

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Interviews at Figma

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Positive43%
Negative39%
Neutral18%
Getting an Interview
Applied online62%
Recruiter18%
Employee Referral16%
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Anonymous Interview Candidate

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Negative Experience
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Figma in Nov 2023

Interview

The interview process are similar to other companies, involve coding, design and behavior rounds. The interview questions are based on real tasks and features so it can be interesting to work on, but really not hard.

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  • technical questions are related to real tasks and features
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Anonymous Interview Candidate in Palo Alto, CA

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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Figma (Palo Alto, CA) in Nov 2023

Interview

First initial phone with recruiter followed by a technical round. Interview itself was not hard and actually interesting close to real world problem. BUT interviewer was way more junior and could not help or understand why certain block of code is not working so it was not pair programming at all. Frustrating

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Anonymous Interview Candidate

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Negative Experience
Average Interview
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Figma

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Had initial phone screening with recruiter thanks to an employee referral. Call went great and was told they’d move me forward in their process. Never heard back again after multiple attempts of reaching out to initial screener and HM.

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Anonymous Interview Candidate

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I applied online. I interviewed at Figma

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Had a call with the recruiter, heard back from them a week later that they were not moving forward with me as a candidate, I was shocked to not get past the recruiter call

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  • What's a social media campaign you worked on that was outside the norm
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Anonymous Interview Candidate

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Negative Experience
Easy Interview
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I interviewed at Figma

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The hiring manager reached out to me. He said he really liked my experience and believes I am a good fit. The next day the recruiter reached out and said the hiring manager has decided to down-level me to a Sr. Manager role. And that there's 2 more interviews, Supporting Teams interview and a Technical Deep Dive interview before the panel interview. What really made the process a negative experience for me was the lack of transparency from both re recruiter and the interviewers.

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  • 1. standard cross functional questions 2. pick a system you/your team built/designed and walk me through the decisions made, challenges, considerations..
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Anonymous Interview Candidate

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Negative Experience
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Figma

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Interview seemingly went really well. Multiple positive comments from the interviewer. Moved up in the interview process only to then receive an automated rejection email after a few days. Not even a call or an actual email.

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Anonymous Interview Candidate

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Average Interview
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I applied online. I interviewed at Figma

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Good conversation with the recruiter and I was moved to the next round. For the technical assessment the interviewing engineer joined late, had significantly less experienced than me. He was a nice guy pleasant to talk to but didn't seem to have much experience doing interviews. Figma tries to pick a problem that is close to the real world but that also means a lot of their problems seemed poorly designed for a 1 hour technical screen. I got hit with a wall of text that took a little time to understand. The interviewer tried to visualize the problem on a board but that didn't help much. Eventually came up with an algorithm and started writing code. Mid way interviewer brought up points that confused me and I ended up not finishing my code. Found out later that i was on the right track and got poor guidance from interviewer who misdirected me down a wrong path probably unintentional. Wasn't particularly difficult once you understood what was expected.

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Anonymous Interview Candidate

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Neutral Experience
Average Interview
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Figma in Sep 2023

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tl;dr: They say they try to uplift candidates during the interviews, but if you’re not from FAANG they will go out of their way to find any little reasons possible to make you fail. I felt judged by some of my interviewers because I was not coming from FAANG. I received feedback that the project I recently worked on was not technical enough, even though it serves 1M unique users per month. Almost everyone I interviewed had half the years of experience I had and were all coming from FAANG. There is a huge sense of elitism when talking to them. Most of the Interviewers were pretty much fake nice. They seem like great people and they reassure you that everything you are doing in the interview is fine but will stab you in the back when grading your performance. During one of my answers, I asked the interviewer if they wanted more details on that particular subject and they answered "no". Later, the feedback included that I did not go into detail about this particular subject. Another feedback I received was that I asked too many clarifying questions on the scope of the work. Truly mind-blowing. Their questions/exercises were not particularly tricky but after receiving their final feedback, it appears that they are very picky and are looking for any little thing to make you fail.

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  • Nothing too surprising. Coding questions are standard LC turned into some figma use cases.
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Anonymous Interview Candidate

No Offer
Negative Experience
Average Interview
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I interviewed at Figma

Interview

Inconsistent communication, too many steps in the process and yet somehow they still didn't gather enough data to make a decision-- they ended up hiring no one after having several finalists of which I was one.

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Anonymous Interview Candidate

No Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Figma in Sep 2023

Interview

The process was very smooth! It started with a Byteboard, then recruiter check-in call, then final. The final consists of three back to back interviews, two technical and one behavioral.

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Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Figma as 42.3% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.11 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Senior Product Marketing Manager and Security Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Partner Manager and Finance roles were rated as the easiest.

The hiring process at Figma takes an average of 22.69 days when considering 104 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Brand Designer had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Engineering Manager roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 60 days).

Common stages of the interview process at Figma according to 104 Glassdoor interviews include:

Phone Interview: 29.49%

One on One Interview: 23.04%

Presentation: 12.90%

Skills Test: 11.06%

Group Panel Interview: 10.14%

Background Check: 6.91%

Drug Test: 2.76%

Personality Test: 1.84%

IQ Intelligence Test: 0.92%

Other: 0.92%

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