Applied through an employee referral. The CoderPad had timed questions and felt straightforward overall, mostly LeetCode easy to medium difficulty, with enough time to finish if you stayed focused. Great.
Application
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Upstart in Nov 2025
Interview
The process is weird, started from third party and i was applying for L5 but some how, from some point, it became an interview for L4. not sure what was happening
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me one large proj you have completed recently