I applied through other source. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Opendoor (San Francisco, CA) in May 2018
Interview
The worst interview experience. The first round was a phone interview, I did really well and they invited me for an onsite. The Engineering Manager sent a friendly email the day before I was flying which was really nice. The onsite interviews are where things went really really bad. The questions weren't too hard but there is no way you can complete them in 1 hr. The second interviewer was not interested at all - I was talking to myself and typing the solution away and she seemed to do her own thing on Slack. After 2 rounds and a lunch interview, the recruiter comes in and says that they will not be moving forward to the next interviews in the afternoon to save my time. Save my time, seriously? I flew all the way to meet the team and learn more, and not one person asked me about what I was working on and my interests. And they send me home after half day? My flight was not until late that night, the hotel was for just the night before and I spent the next 5 hours walking around the streets of SF. Worst experience ever.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A question that involved implementation of a trie data structure and using that
Failed at HR call. Profile might not be that much match, they are looking for backend leaning role but I did more front end works instead. HR might not look up my resume carefully.
I applied in-person. I interviewed at Opendoor (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2025
Interview
Very easy and straightforward very nice people enjoyed the conversation that we had a lot and benefitted a lot from it so I would thank them for that
Overall the interview is structured and chill and straightforward with a pretty laid back vibe
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Opendoor
Interview
There was a phone screen which was followed by an onsite interview with 4-5 interviews, some technical, others behavioral. It was interesting that they included some ML-based questions in the SWE interview. Afterward, I heard back pretty quickly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a search service that will return all of the names that start with a given string that is optimized for speed.
