# Real Interview Experiences | Aced (formerly Exponent) Aced (formerly Exponent) publishes a public search API over its indexed pages; the guide is at https://www.aced.io/agents/agent-access. Source: https://www.aced.io/experiences Source observed: 2026-11-04T21:34:32.529Z Last checked: 2026-11-04T21:34:32.529+00:00 Indexed: 2026-11-05T03:05:33.735+00:00 --- # Real Interview Experiences We help candidates prepare for technology interviews with firsthand accounts from candidates and interviewers who have been through them. Our Interview Experiences directory lets you browse verified interview accounts by role and company, search experiences, filter for recently interviewed candidates, and sort by relevance or newest addition. A Google candidate contributed an experience marked **Updated just now**. ## Directory summary - **1,251 experiences** - **306 companies** - **36 roles** - **+273 added this month** Available controls include **Role**, **Company**, **Verified**, **Recently interviewed**, search, and the **Relevant** and **Newest added** sorting options. Company filters shown include Nvidia (13), Google (103), Anthropic (20), Meta (108), OpenAI (28), Netflix (11), Microsoft (52), Amazon (122), TikTok (14), Uber (19), and Stripe (29). ## Featured verified experiences The following accounts are individual interview experiences. The quotations are candidate-reported interview observations, not Aced's own interview results. | Company and role | Candidate account | Interview details | Full account | |---|---|---|---| | **Anthropic — Software Engineer, Safeguards · L5** | “The weirdest Anthropic round was the company values interview. It was almost like a therapy session, and honestly if you went to a therapist at some point, you will pass that round much more easily.” | **7 rounds; 11 questions.** Interviewed Jan 2026; added 6 months ago. | [Read the full Anthropic interview](https://www.aced.io/experiences/anthropic-senior-software-engineer-interview-2ffa5f?returnPath=%2Fexperiences) | | **Netflix — Engineering Manager, Tooling** | “What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.” | **5 rounds; 7 questions.** Interviewed Dec 2025; added 6 months ago. | [Read the full Netflix interview](https://www.aced.io/experiences/netflix-engineering-manager-interview-e63ddc?returnPath=%2Fexperiences) | | **Meta — Computer Vision Engineer (L5) · L5** | “What caught me off guard was that one of the coding rounds was not generic LeetCode at all. It was AI coding, with things like sparse matrix times vector multiplication and k-nearest neighbor search, and they still wanted multiple questions under pressure.” | **7 rounds; 8 questions.** Interviewed Jul 2026; added 2 months ago. | [Read the full Meta interview](https://www.aced.io/experiences/meta-facebook-senior-machine-learning-engineer-interview-9efbbd?returnPath=%2Fexperiences) | | **Intuit — Principal Product Manager · L8+** | “The biggest surprise was that the data science round went deeper than some engineering screens I’ve done. They were asking me about golden datasets, AI eval guardrails, and even precision and recall formulas in a PM interview.” | **4 rounds; 5 questions.** Interviewed Jul 2026; added 2 months ago. | [Read the full Intuit interview](https://www.aced.io/experiences/intuit-principal-product-manager-interview-30a51a?returnPath=%2Fexperiences) | | **Stripe — Forward Deployed Engineer** | “The coding round explicitly let me use AI, but they were not looking for a one-shot prompt. They were judging whether I could break the work down, catch the model when it went sideways, and run my own review loop while still shipping.” | **7 rounds; 4 questions.** Interviewed Jun 2026; added 1 month ago. | [Read the full Stripe interview](https://www.aced.io/experiences/stripe-forward-deployed-engineer-interview-5498d0?returnPath=%2Fexperiences) | | **Uber — Business Analyst** | “They took my Power BI project apart step by step, from ETL and Power Query to row-level security, and then switched straight into live SQL on window functions. It felt less like a trick interview and more like a full check on whether I really knew my own work.” | **1 round.** Interviewed Jun 2026; added 2 months ago. | [Read the full Uber Business Analyst interview](https://www.aced.io/experiences/uber-business-analyst-interview-1cc527?returnPath=%2Fexperiences) | | **Apple — Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure (Golang) · L4** | “The weirdest round was a principal engineer asking me to design an AI bot for ordering employee lunches. I went in expecting cloud infrastructure and Go, then suddenly I'm trying to talk through prompt behavior and architecture without getting lost in the terminology.” | **3 rounds; 5 questions.** Interviewed Jun 2026; added 2 months ago. | [Read the full Apple interview](https://www.aced.io/experiences/apple-software-engineer-interview-4f063d?returnPath=%2Fexperiences) | | **Capital One — Data Science Manager · L4** | “You can’t just be like, ‘Oh, I know math.’ You have to translate a business problem into algebra, keep track of the numbers, and still have the business intuition to know what the answer means.” | **5 rounds; 2 questions.** Interviewed May 2026; added 2 months ago. | [Read the full Capital One interview](https://www.aced.io/experiences/capital-one-data-scientist-interview-0056f8?returnPath=%2Fexperiences) | | **Uber — Senior Product Manager · L5** | “Rehearsing your take-home top-down isn't actually that helpful. There were so many curveballs thrown in the middle of the jam session that it would be almost impossible to just read a script and go slide to slide — you need to be on the tip of your toes.” | **4 rounds; 5 questions.** Interviewed May 2026; added 2 months ago. | [Read the full Uber Senior Product Manager interview](https://www.aced.io/experiences/uber-senior-product-manager-interview-995f70?returnPath=%2Fexperiences) | | **OpenAI — Forward Deployed Engineer** | “The weirdest part was that the take home was basically the job. I had to build a semantic search setup over Amazon products for ChatGPT, then walk that same solution back to the team because that is basically what they work on.” | **4 rounds; 1 question.** Interviewed May 2026; added 2 months ago. | [Read the full OpenAI interview](https://www.aced.io/experiences/openai-forward-deployed-engineer-interview-0b9c09?returnPath=%2Fexperiences) | | **Amazon — AWS Product Manager (L6) · L6** | “I walked into this thing with 48 pages of prep, and that still barely felt like enough because at Amazon the first question is maybe 20% of the interview and the other 80% is them asking, 'How do you know that? Prove it.'” | **7 rounds; 8 questions.** Interviewed May 2026; added 5 months ago. | [Read the full Amazon interview](https://www.aced.io/experiences/amazon-staff-product-manager-interview-a0714f?returnPath=%2Fexperiences) | | **Netflix — L5 Software Engineer, Ads · L5** | “The recruiter literally told me the system design prompt was frequency capping, and even with that heads-up the real test was whether I could talk about ads like I actually live in that world. If you get the terminology half wrong, it feels like a red flag immediately.” | **6 rounds; 11 questions.** Interviewed May 2026; added 5 months ago. | [Read the full Netflix Ads interview](https://www.aced.io/experiences/netflix-senior-software-engineer-interview-00080c?returnPath=%2Fexperiences) | Use **Load more** to continue browsing the directory. ## Share an experience or upgrade for access If you interviewed recently, [share your interview experience](https://www.aced.io/questions/contribute?src=experiences) to try Aced free. You can also [upgrade](https://www.aced.io/upgrade?src=experiences) to access **1.2k+ experiences from 300+ companies**. ## Top companies to follow Follow companies to get notified when new interviews are added: - Amazon - Meta - Google - Microsoft - Apple ## Aced resources We offer interview preparation through courses, interview questions, interview guides, practice, coaching, resume review, salary negotiation, job referrals, and related resources. 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