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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 7, 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Boston, MA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at DraftKings (Boston, MA) in Jun 2023

      Interview

      I just went through the entire interview sequence for a Senior/Lead iOS Developer role over at DraftKings and thought it would be useful to recap how it was and my experience, just to help future candidates coming down the chute. I spoke with the recruiter three or four times. One time as an introduction, the second time was interview prep for the "virtual on-site", then the last encounter which I'll talk about at the end of this recap. All video interviews are done doing Microsoft Teams (DK only recently dropped using Zoom for their conference calls), but they still do internal communication via Slack. All technical interviews have HackerRank whiteboards and coderpads available to work with. The first interview (with a lead dev) is a straight coding session. This was the standard "given an array of customers & total revenue, discounts & their amounts, and types of discounts being offered to customers" problem, which I'll try to detail as completely as possible below. This one seemed to go really smoothly (I just loaded a bunch of arrays and implemented the validation rules and explained myself as I went along), and I got the call the next day inviting me to do the "virtual on-site". The virtual on-site can potentially eat up four hours out of a business day, but in my case they split it up one interview on one day and then the last three on the next day. The system design interview session basically had the candidate designing an odds provider/serving system for DraftKing players. I dutifully sketched out how I would do it and felt relatively good about the conversation, though apparently the person interviewing me didn't feel the same. The next interview was covering Team Dynamics with the director (or the guy one level above the hiring manager), and this is where I was asked the standard "are you a team player" and "tell me about when you failed and how you recovered" questions that are part of most behavioral & cultural interviews. The director did provide much more context about the role I was interviewing for -- DK is trying to migrate everything to individual & native SDK's and frameworks (I think delivered via Swift Package Manager) from the legacy (and increasingly difficult to work with) Xamarin codebase. I recall the director saying the size of the team was five when I spoke with the director, it will be six by the time this recap gets published, and they hope to eventually have at least 9 or 10 developers on the team. The current breakdown was 3 android, 1 iOS, 1 lead who is doing iOS and then the new iOS developer that was joining. So with that relatively small number I'm guessing think the director was referring to the Player Account Management team and not to the entire mobile organization. I got to speak with the hiring manager next, and his topic was a "deep dive" in some project/technical history, where I had to explain some amazing feature I had worked on in the past, how I implemented it, how I interacted with various people (e.g. project managers or product owners, UX/UI designers, backend devs and then collaborating with Android devs on my team to make sure iOS & Android were behaving the same in parallel). My last technical interview was the "Object Oriented Design Exercise", and basically had me implement how to structure how chats would be displayed and the underlying data dealt with. This one ended up being the one that likely got me disqualified, but I'll detail below. The last day of the week (one day after their internal recap session) the recruiter called me back to give me the official thumbs down. I am very grateful that the recruiter did provide relatively detailed feedback as to where and how I goofed up: the two technical interviews of the "virtual onsite" I apparently didn't provide enough detail or perhaps I sounded shaky -- and while I won't console myself with this as an excuse, I still believe I did okay given that this was my first set of hardcore interviews post pandemic and I've been out of practice for a couple years. But hopefully my experience flunking the process will help you prepare for interview success, especially if you are aiming for a Mobile (iOS) role on the mobile team. If my notes did help you to prepare for your interview, please let me know by clicking on the "helpful" link below (as this motivates me to try to be as detailed as possible).

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      For the "Object Oriented Programming" technical interview, I was given a screenshot with two screens, where the first view represented a list of chats/conversations with friends (whether 1-1 or group chats, also preferred friends selectable in a carousel or collection view at the top of that table view) and then the other view was an individual chat clicked through from the chat list/table. The individual chat might be with one user or a group, and allows text, embedded emoticons or animated GIFs, and little icons to indicate whether the chat recipient(s) have actually seen the text. Describe how this would be structured and set up.
      1 Answer
      88

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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 13, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Toronto, ON
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at DraftKings (Toronto, ON) in Dec 2025

      Interview

      Initial coding round was Object Oriented programming. Later 4 rounds was mostly OOPs design and one project deep design along with coding using agentic AI. The interviews were concept oriented. Deep Dive of your project is important. Emphasize more on abstraction, extensibility and scalability

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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Feb 15, 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Dublin, Dublin
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at DraftKings (Dublin, Dublin) in Feb 2024

      Interview

      Applied on linkedin with an honest CV. Got an initial call which did not go well, the recruiter seemed annoyed I did not have a particular experience on my CV. I did not hide this fact from them prior to the call so I feel they should have done their due dilligence before wasting my time. I was surprised afterwards they went on to ask me some technical questions. I flubbed some, answered some ok. She would rush me on if i knew the answer but be a bit judgemental if I did not. She concluded that these were simple questions that would be asked in the next interview. Fair enough but I was not expecting them in this call, and from a recruiter with no experience in software development. Felt like among my most negative experiences in an interview for being judged for what I hadnt gotten experience in, and then what I didnt know of the top of my head.

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      DraftKings response
      2y
      Thank you for sharing your recent interview experience with us. Your transparency is invaluable as we enhance our recruitment processes. I’m sorry to hear about the unexpected technical questions during the call and the subsequent feelings of being judged. We certainly want to create a better experience for our candidates. I sincerely apologize for any frustration you may have encountered throughout the process. We recognize the importance of aligning expectations and value your time interviewing with us. We are actively working to refine our procedures to avoid any CV oversights in the future. We are committed to learning from this experience and making the necessary adjustments to create a more positive and constructive interview environment for all candidates.

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 28, 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at DraftKings in Jan 2024

      Interview

      First was a HR/Recruiter Screening over the phone followed by a tech Screening via Hackerrank with 2 engineers. The tech screeners were polite, but it was odd that they were basically totally silent for the first 45 minutes, and one did not ever turn on his camera. Then 3 more interviews: - OO problem - Technical Interview - Behavioral/Culture Fit Interview

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      tech screening was the one everyone has been mentioning -- 4 part customer/discount via hackerrank
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      2
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      DraftKings response
      2y
      Thank you for taking the time to interview at DraftKings and sharing your feedback on your interview process. You deserve our undivided attention throughout the interviews, as you took time out of your day to meet with our team. We sincerely apologize for falling short of that. We’ve shared your feedback with the team so we may continue improving our processes and ensure that everyone has a positive experience when they interview at DraftKings. Thank you again for your candid input.

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