I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Bolt (Tallinn) in Dec 2025
Interview
The process was the regular technical interview pipeline. It started with a simple hackerrank problem solving interview, followed by a code review interview, followed by a system design interview, then a behavioural interview with the engineering manager and tech lead for the team. Overall it was a pleasant experience. Their response time after interviews is a bit lacking (I'd wait up to a week for a response after every phase). I got a low offer so I rejected it.
Other Senior Software Engineer interview reviews for Bolt
The first one with HR was good and gave a good impression. During live coding, I got to see how the team wasn't really keeping up and the engineers I met with are a bit anti-AI, and still believe in writing code manually instead of leveraging ai tools like Cursor or Claude code. It was a shock for me as I was looking up at bolt, but not anymore.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One question not sure what was the purpose of it was a math problem out of nowhere 😂, like for real guys what the heck. and when I asked what was that, they said it was nothing.
It was just an first HR interview of 30 mins. Talent recruiter just took intro from me. they were not pleased that i am not graduated yet from my masters and wanted me to apply later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
intro, relocation, when can you join and why you leaving previous company
