I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Windsurf (Mountain View, CA) in Jan 2025
Interview
Take home assignment followed with 3 onsite inteviews. Pretty easy onsite but the assignment was tough. Prepare with some python assignments. Also look into distributed functions. Onsite was mostly lc based and should be doable. They also asked for debugging an open source library and offering some potential solutions to fix sone open issues. But the process might have changes since acquisition
OA with AI tools allowed, you can use any tool you want, and 2 technicals with data structures and algorithms questions are of medium to medium-hard difficulty. And the last round is behavioral
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Windsurf
Interview
Recruiter reached out before the OpenAI acquisition when they were still called Codeium. Product is cool and the talent is solid. Made it past the first coding round but not the second. I solved the question in the second round but didn't pass so the bar is high.
One technical interview with leetcode style algorithm question. Interviewer was helpful though very direct and not very warm. It was 45 mins long. It was a though but interesting problem about building a search engine. Overall process was smooth.
