Interview Questions

Accenture's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment (often the Cognitive + Coding combo), and a two to three round virtual onsite covering coding, behavioral, and a consulting-case style situational round. Most new grads enter through Accenture Technology — placed on client projects in cloud (often Federal, financial services, healthcare), security, AI, or industry-X (engineering services). The loop is lighter on algorithm depth than FAANG, heavier on communication and consulting fit.

Adobe's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and a team-fit conversation. Adobe is creative-tools and media; image, video, and document processing concepts show up.

Adyen's new-grad SWE loop in Amsterdam in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a CodeSignal assessment, two technical interviews, and a behavioral panel. Adyen is known for a streamlined, high-bar process with strong emphasis on Java fundamentals, distributed-systems thinking, and the eight 'Adyen Formula' principles (such as 'Winning is more important than ego').

Affirm's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite. Coding rounds skew medium with a focus on practical correctness; one round typically covers financial-modeling or risk-systems concepts. Affirm interviewers probe mission fit — the consumer-credit-without-fees framing matters.

Airbnb's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, a craft round, and behavioral (Airbnb's Core Values round). Airbnb values craft, design empathy, and host-and-guest mindset.

Airbyte's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, a take-home or project deep-dive, and behavioral. Airbyte is open-source data integration; engineers think in connectors, ETL, and reliable streaming.

Akamai's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, networking and distributed-systems fundamentals, and behavioral. Hiring spans the CDN edge platform, Akamai Connected Cloud (post-Linode acquisition), security products (Bot Manager, App & API Protector), and the Edge DNS platform. Loops emphasize global-scale distributed-systems thinking.

Akuna Capital's new-grad quant researcher loop in 2026 emphasizes probability, options-pricing fundamentals, and a trading-game simulation. The Chicago-headquartered firm specializes in options market-making and has a distinctive culture mixing trading-floor energy with quantitative rigor. Expect mental math, probability puzzles, and questions about derivatives pricing intuition.

Amazon's SDE I new-grad loop in 2026 is an online assessment, a phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite. Behavioral questions explicitly map to Amazon's 16 Leadership Principles, with two LP stories expected per round. New-grad does get a lightweight system or object-oriented design round in many loops.

AMD's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, computer architecture, and behavioral. Software roles span GPU drivers (Radeon/Instinct), ROCm AI stack, CPU performance tooling, and firmware. AMD's growth in datacenter GPU has accelerated AI software hiring through 2024-2026.

AMD's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a two to three round virtual interview covering coding, computer architecture, and a behavioral. Intern roles span GPU drivers (Radeon/Instinct), ROCm AI stack, CPU performance tooling, and firmware. AMD has been hiring interns aggressively due to GPU demand growth through 2024-2026; conversion to new-grad return offers is common.

Anduril's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four to five round virtual onsite covering coding, lightweight design, and behavioral. Anduril builds defense software with hardware-in-the-loop systems; engineers should expect questions that touch on systems thinking and real-time constraints.

Apple's ICT2 new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is highly team-specific. After a recruiter screen, candidates do one technical phone screen and a four to six round onsite that depends heavily on the org (silicon, OS, services, hardware-adjacent, ML). Coding rounds vary in style; behavioral questions probe deep technical curiosity and product taste.

Asana's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a take-home or live coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, mindfulness/values, and an in-depth project discussion. Asana is intentional about culture and the values rounds are real signal.

Atlassian's new-grad SWE loop in Sydney in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a HackerRank coding assessment, a technical phone interview, and a four-round virtual onsite covering coding, values-based behavioral, system design conversation, and a deep-dive technical discussion. Atlassian's five values (Open company, Don't #@!% the customer, Build with heart and balance, Play, as a team, Be the change you seek) appear in every behavioral round.

Atlassian's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a 1-hour technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, values-based behavioral, and a project deep dive. Atlassian is values-driven; their five values are tested explicitly in dedicated rounds.

Atlassian's intern SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, and two technical interviews plus a values-based behavioral. Atlassian's five values are evaluated explicitly even at the intern level.

Block's (formerly Square) new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and team match. Block is fintech and commerce — payments, point-of-sale, and crypto themes appear depending on the org (Cash App, Square, Spiral, TIDAL).

Bloomberg's Financial Engineering new-grad loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online quantitative assessment, a technical phone screen, and a superday of four rounds covering coding, statistics, financial-product intuition, and behavioral. The FE rotation sits between Bloomberg's core SWE and full quant — strong programmer with applied math comfort.

Bloomberg's intern SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment via HackerRank, and two virtual technical interviews. The bar is slightly lower than new-grad — fundamentals over esoteric problems — but interviewers still expect clean code, complexity analysis, and curiosity about Bloomberg's financial-data domain.

Bloomberg's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, two technical phone screens, and a virtual or in-person superday covering coding, system fundamentals, and team-fit. Bloomberg's stack is C++ heavy with Python and JavaScript, and interviewers expect comfort with low-level details — pointers, memory layout, time complexity in the language you choose.

Boston Dynamics' Robotics Software Engineer new-grad loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an OA, and a 5-round virtual onsite with significant emphasis on robotics fundamentals: inverse kinematics, sim-to-real transfer, safety envelopes, and real-time controls. The track sits closest to the mechanical hardware — robotics software engineers write the code that decides how the robot moves.

Boston Dynamics' new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an OA, a phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite. Backend is C++ and Rust with Python for tooling. The company designs and builds Spot, Stretch, and Atlas — robots with real mechanical hardware — so new-grads with robotics, controls, or real-time systems coursework get a strong signal advantage.

Boston Dynamics' SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an OA, and a 2-3 round virtual interview. The intern program is small and competitive, with strong preference for students with robotics, controls, or real-time systems coursework. Conversion to new-grad is the typical path for top performers.

Box's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a 1-hour phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and team match. Box is cloud-content; expect questions on file systems, sharing, and permissions modeling.

Brex's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite covering coding, system design (lightweight), and behavioral. Brex hires for fintech-grade rigor — reliability, correctness, and end-to-end ownership are core.

Broadcom's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, systems fundamentals, and behavioral. Post-VMware acquisition, Broadcom Software Group spans VMware, CA Technologies, Symantec Enterprise, and Brocade. Hiring is selective; many new-grad roles are now tied to specific product lines (vSphere, NSX, Symantec endpoint, mainframe).

Broadcom's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a two to three round virtual interview covering coding, systems fundamentals, and a behavioral. Intern programs span the semiconductor side (switching/storage/wireless chip software) and the Broadcom Software Group (VMware, Symantec, CA). Hiring is selective; many intern roles are tied to specific product lines.

Capital One's Data Engineer new-grad loop in 2026 sits inside the Technology Development Program (TDP) and emphasizes pipeline design, SQL fluency, and AWS data-stack reasoning. The bank moves petabytes of customer and transaction data daily; the loop screens for engineers who can build reliable streaming and batch pipelines and reason about data quality at scale.

Capital One's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 — branded as the Technology Internship Program (TIP) for return-offer hires and the Technology Development Program (TDP) for direct new-grads — is a HackerRank, a power day with a case study, two technical rounds, and one behavioral. Capital One pioneered the all-in cloud bank, runs entirely on AWS, and its loop reflects that: Java/Scala backend questions, distributed-systems thinking, and a case-study round that few other banks use.

Capital One's Technology Internship Program (TIP) in 2026 is a HackerRank, a video assessment, and a Power Day with a case study, a technical round, and a behavioral. TIP is the dominant feeder into the new-grad TDP — return-offer conversion rates have been historically high. The loop calibrates to undergrads but still includes Capital One's signature case-study round.

Character AI's new-grad MLE loop in 2026 adds one ML-specific round on top of the standard SWE coding/behavioral set. Expect questions on inference optimization, embeddings, evaluation, and the production reality of serving large language models at consumer scale.

Character AI's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four to five round virtual onsite covering coding, lightweight system design, and behavioral. The company builds consumer AI products at very high request volume — interviews favor candidates who think about throughput, caching, and inference economics.

Chime's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA, one technical phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite. Coding rounds skew medium; one round usually covers banking-systems or consumer-finance concepts. Mission fit on financial inclusion is a real signal — Chime serves the underbanked.

Cisco's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, networking fundamentals, and behavioral. Many candidates apply through the CXC (Cisco Choose Your Career) program, which has its own bar; the regular-application loop is similar but with more emphasis on the specific team's tech stack (networking OS, security, collaboration tools).

Cisco's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a two to three round virtual interview covering coding, networking fundamentals, and a behavioral. The internship is often a path to a return offer for a new-grad CXC or direct-hire role. Intern bars at Cisco are slightly lower than new-grad, with more weight on potential and curiosity than on production-shipped experience.

Citadel's quant intern loop in 2026 covers probability, statistics, ML methodology, and coding under time pressure. Citadel's intern programs (Discover at Citadel for sophomores, Quant Intern for juniors) are highly competitive and serve as the primary new-grad pipeline. Conversion rates from internship to full-time are high for strong performers.

Citadel's new-grad quant research loop in 2026 is the most selective in the hedge-fund world, with a four to six round process emphasizing probability, statistics, time-series intuition, and the ability to translate noisy data into testable hypotheses. Citadel and Citadel Securities run separate loops despite shared infrastructure — confirm with your recruiter which org you are interviewing for.

Citadel's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is highly competitive: HackerRank screen, multiple coding rounds, low-level systems questions, and a behavioral round emphasizing ownership and intellectual humility. Citadel and Citadel Securities have shared engineering recruiting but separate teams — confirm with your recruiter which org you are interviewing for.

Cohere's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and four virtual onsite rounds. The company builds enterprise-focused language model products — interviews favor candidates with strong fundamentals and an interest in the production side of large-model inference and retrieval.

Coinbase's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA on CodeSignal, one technical phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite. Coding rounds skew medium with a focus on correctness and edge cases — money is involved. One round typically covers financial or crypto-systems concepts (transaction reconciliation, idempotency, blockchain basics).

Confluent's Data Infrastructure Engineer new-grad loop in 2026 is for engineers working on the streaming engine itself — Kafka core, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, Confluent Cloud control plane. The loop is the most distributed-systems-heavy in the company: a coding screen, a deep distributed-systems round, a system-design round, and a behavioral. Bar emphasizes consensus protocols, replication invariants, storage internals, and the ability to reason about correctness under failure.

Confluent's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a CoderPad screen, a technical phone round, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, distributed-systems fundamentals, a system-design round, and a behavioral on Confluent's values. As the company founded by the creators of Apache Kafka, Confluent's bar emphasizes deep systems thinking even at new-grad level — replication, partitioning, consensus, log compaction. Kafka domain knowledge is fair game and expected for product-team roles.

Confluent's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a CoderPad screen and a 3-round virtual onsite with coding, light system thinking, and behavioral. The intern bar is calibrated for undergrads but still touches distributed-systems concepts. Conversion to full-time return offers is a major hiring path.

Cruise's Mapping Engineer new-grad loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an OA, and a 5-round virtual onsite with significant emphasis on HD-map infrastructure: map merging, crowdsourced updates from the fleet, and accuracy validation against ground truth. Mapping is upstream of perception and planning — bad maps cause downstream failures — so the bar is calibrated tightly.

Cruise's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an OA, a phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite. Backend is C++ heavy with Python for ML and tooling. New-grads should be comfortable in C++ and have at least one CS-fundamentals strength — operating systems, distributed systems, or computer vision. Cruise's hiring bar has stayed high through 2026 as the company refocuses operations.

Cruise's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an OA, and a 2-3 round virtual interview. The program is small and selective, with strong preference for students with C++ skills and prior robotics, vision, or systems coursework. Conversion to new-grad is the typical path for top performers.

D. E. Shaw's quant intern loop in 2026 covers probability brainteasers, statistics, coding, and a fit conversation. The firm has multiple intern programs (asset management, systematic trading, computational biology, structured products) with semi-independent hiring. The intern program is the firm's primary new-grad pipeline for quant roles.

D. E. Shaw's new-grad quant analyst loop in 2026 is famously rigorous: a coding/math screen, multiple probability and brainteaser rounds, and a final round with senior researchers. The firm hires across multiple groups (systematic trading, structured products, asset management), so loop structure varies by team — confirm with your recruiter.

D. E. Shaw's new-grad software developer loop in 2026 is rigorous and broad: coding rounds, system design, low-level systems questions, and a behavioral component evaluating intellectual humility. The firm hires across multiple groups (systematic trading tech, infrastructure, computational biology), so loop emphasis varies by team — confirm with your recruiter.

Databricks' new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA, one technical phone screen, and a four to five round virtual onsite. Coding rounds skew medium-hard with a focus on data-structures depth and distributed-systems intuition. Open-source contributions and exposure to Spark, Delta Lake, or MLflow stand out in resume screens.

Databricks' SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA, and a two to three round virtual interview. Intern interviews cover algorithms, data structures, and one behavioral. Conversion to full-time is the primary path Databricks fills new-grad roles, so the bar on interns is treated as a future-hire signal.

Datadog's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA on HackerRank, one phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite. The bar is heavy on practical engineering — clean code, complexity reasoning, and at least one round on systems concepts (networking, observability, distributed systems basics). Expect a take-home option for some teams.

Deliveroo's new-grad SWE loop in London in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a HackerRank or take-home coding task, a technical phone interview, and a four round virtual onsite covering coding, system design, behavioral, and a cross-functional collaboration round. Deliveroo emphasizes practical, domain-aware problem solving over leetcode tricks; expect questions framed around food delivery logistics.

Dell's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, OS or systems fundamentals, and behavioral. Most new-grad SWE roles sit inside Dell's Software-Defined Storage, PowerEdge firmware, or PC client software divisions; the loop adapts to the team's stack. Texas and Massachusetts campuses dominate hiring.

Dell EMC's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, storage fundamentals, and behavioral. Note: 'Dell EMC' is now formally Dell's Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) post-2016 merger; product lines include PowerMax, PowerStore, PowerScale, and Data Protection (Avamar/NetWorker). Loops emphasize storage protocols, replication, and high-availability concepts.

Discord's Platform Engineer new-grad loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an OA, and a 4-round virtual onsite with extra emphasis on bot platform, slash commands, OAuth flows, and rate limiting. Platform engineers own the developer-facing surface — the API, the bot ecosystem, and the integrations that thousands of community-built tools rely on.

Discord's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an OA, a phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite. Discord's backend is famously Elixir and Erlang for the chat fabric, with Rust for performance-critical paths and Python for tooling. New-grads do not need to know Elixir going in, but exposure to the actor model or BEAM ecosystem shows up well in conversation.

Discord's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an OA, and a 2-3 round virtual interview. Discord runs a small, high-leverage intern program — most interns work directly on a small team with significant ownership. The bar is treated as a future-hire signal, with strong conversion rates for top performers.

DoorDash's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and a team match. DoorDash is logistics, marketplace, and real-time dispatch; expect questions flavored by delivery routing, ETAs, and supply-demand matching.

Dropbox's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-5 round virtual onsite covering coding, an architecture/system fundamentals round, behavioral, and a leveling round. Dropbox is sync at scale; expect problems flavored by file systems and consistency.

DRW's new-grad quant researcher loop in 2026 is a diversified trading firm's gauntlet: probability brainteasers, mental math, market-making mechanics, and a deep technical conversation about your interests. The firm runs separate hiring loops for the Chicago, New York, and London offices, with some role specialization by region.

DRW's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 emphasizes systems engineering, low-latency design, and the ability to discuss real-time systems intuitively. The Chicago-headquartered firm runs diverse trading operations across asset classes and offers strong engineering tracks alongside its trading operation. Expect coding in C++ or Python, system design questions, and a behavioral round emphasizing collaboration.

eBay's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and team match. eBay is one of the original e-commerce marketplaces; expect questions on auctions, search, and high-volume transactions.

Elastic's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite. The bar leans heavily on practical engineering and open-source mindset — many candidates report interview questions tied to search, indexing, and distributed-systems intuition. Most engineers work remote across global timezones.

Etsy's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 3-4 round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and team match. Etsy is e-commerce for handmade and vintage goods; search relevance, recommendations, and seller tools show up.

F5 Networks' new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, networking and L4-L7 fundamentals, and behavioral. F5 software spans BIG-IP appliances, NGINX (acquired 2019), F5 Distributed Cloud, and application security (Shape, Volterra). Loops emphasize application-layer protocols and security.

Figma's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a two to three round virtual onsite covering coding and behavioral, with a lightweight interactive round on some teams. Internship bar is slightly below new-grad on algorithm depth but Figma still screens hard for craft and product taste.

Figma's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four to five round virtual onsite covering coding, a frontend or interactive build, and behavioral. Figma is graphics-heavy under the hood; rounds may probe 2D math or rendering depending on the team.

Flow Traders' new-grad quant researcher loop in 2026 is heavily mental-math and probability focused, with a trading simulation as the centerpiece. The firm specializes in ETF market-making with a strong European presence. Expect arithmetic speed tests, expected value calculations, and questions about trading decisions under uncertainty.

Fujitsu's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, systems and database fundamentals, and behavioral. North American and European loops differ from Japan-based loops; this guide reflects the US/EU pipeline. Software roles span Fujitsu Uvance (sustainability platform), retail and finance solutions, HPC (PRIMEHPC and Fugaku ecosystem), and managed services.

Getir's new-grad SWE loop in Istanbul in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a HackerRank assessment, a technical phone interview, and a three-round virtual onsite. Getir is the originator of the 10-minute grocery delivery model, so questions are often framed around logistics: warehouse routing, rider dispatch, and inventory management. Hiring has slowed in 2025-2026 with broader fintech-adjacent contractions, but new-grad roles remain open.

GitLab's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four to five round virtual onsite covering coding, system design (lightweight), and behavioral. GitLab is famously all-remote with a public handbook; engineers should expect emphasis on async work, written communication, and OSS values.

Glean's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and four virtual onsite rounds. The company builds an enterprise search and assistant platform — interviews favor candidates who think clearly about indexing, access controls, and the production reality of search at company scale.

Goldman Sachs's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a HireVue, a HackerRank coding test, and a virtual superday with two technical rounds plus one behavioral. The Engineering division spans Platforms, Asset & Wealth Management, Global Markets, and Securities — but the bar is consistent: clean Java, solid data structures, and the ability to think about financial systems with the rigor a regulated firm demands.

Goldman Sachs's Engineering Summer Analyst (SWE intern) loop in 2026 is a HireVue, a HackerRank, and a 2-round virtual superday. The firm hires interns in volume each year, and a return offer is the primary recruiting pipeline for the new-grad class — the bar is real but explicitly calibrated for undergrads.

Goldman Sachs Strats is the firm's quant-adjacent engineering role embedded directly with trading desks across Global Markets, Asset & Wealth Management, and Risk. The new-grad Strats loop in 2026 is a HireVue, a math-heavy HackerRank, and a four-round superday testing probability, algorithms, market intuition, and behavioral fit. Strats sit between traders and core engineering, building the pricing and risk tooling the desks use daily.

Google's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four to five round virtual onsite covering coding, algorithms, and behavioral. Coding rounds favor medium to hard problems on arrays, strings, graphs, and dynamic programming, with strict time-to-optimal expectations.

Gusto's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite. Coding rounds skew medium with a focus on practical correctness and clean code. Behavioral rounds weight small-business empathy and inclusive collaboration heavily — Gusto's culture is famously thoughtful about engineering ethics and SMB customer focus.

HashiCorp's new-grad Security Engineer loop in 2026 adds two security-flavored rounds on top of the standard SWE coding/behavioral set. Expect questions on cryptography fundamentals, secrets management, infrastructure hardening, and supply-chain trust. The role lives close to Vault, Boundary, and the platform security teams.

HashiCorp's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a take-home or live coding screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, systems depth, an open-source / craft round, and behavioral. Go fluency is a real signal; the products (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad) are all Go. Post-IBM acquisition (closed 2025), hiring is steady but selective.

HashiCorp's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a 2-3 round virtual interview. Intern interviews emphasize data structures, algorithms, and at least one open-source-flavored discussion. Internships are remote-first with a structured 12-week project on one of the core products (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad).

Hex's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, a project deep-dive or take-home, and behavioral. Hex builds a collaborative data and notebook platform; engineers should expect questions about data, computation graphs, and product engineering.

HP's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, OS fundamentals, and behavioral. HP's software teams span print firmware, PC client software, HP Workforce Solutions (commercial), and HP Wolf Security. The loop adapts to the division — print and firmware are C/C++ heavy, while commercial software is more flexible.

HubSpot's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a take-home coding challenge, and a 3-4 round virtual onsite covering a take-home review, a pair-programming session, a behavioral, and sometimes a team-fit conversation. HubSpot weights craft, take-home quality, and the HEART culture values.

Hudson River Trading's new-grad quant researcher loop in 2026 emphasizes probability, statistical reasoning, and clean coding. The firm is small (~800 employees globally) and the interview process moves faster than larger competitors, with onsites compressed into 1-2 days. Expect to discuss research methodology rigorously and demonstrate ability to think about market microstructure.

Hudson River Trading's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 emphasizes systems-level coding (C++ preferred), low-latency design, and a deep technical conversation about real-time systems. HRT is a small firm with a heavy engineering culture — the technical bar is among the highest in trading, with intense focus on cache-friendly code and microsecond latency.

Hugging Face's new-grad MLE loop in 2026 emphasizes hands-on ML tooling work over research depth. The company ships libraries that millions of practitioners use daily — interviews favor candidates who can read transformer code, write tests for ML libraries, and reason about the deployment side of model training.

Hugging Face's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a take-home (sometimes), one technical phone screen, and three to four virtual onsite rounds covering coding, open-source collaboration, and behavioral. The company is fully remote and ships open source as a first-class product — interviews favor engineers who can read other people's code well.

IBM's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, OS or systems fundamentals, and behavioral. Loops vary considerably by division — Red Hat, IBM Cloud, watsonx, Z mainframe, and Consulting each have very different bars and tech stacks. Confirm the division with your recruiter before prepping.

IBM's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a two to three round virtual interview covering coding, OS or systems fundamentals, and a behavioral. Interns enter through Extreme Blue (highly selective, 12-week structured) or direct-hire internships into specific divisions (Red Hat, IBM Cloud, watsonx, Z mainframe). Intern bars are lighter on algorithms and heavier on potential and learning aptitude.

IBM Research's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, project deep-dive, and behavioral. Most new-grad hires into IBM Research are research-software engineers (RSE) — bridging research labs and product teams. Loops differ from IBM core hiring: the project deep-dive carries more weight, and at least one round is with a senior researcher who will probe deeply on relevant prior work.

IMC Trading's new-grad quant researcher loop in 2026 emphasizes probability, statistics, and a trading-game simulation that tests decision-making under uncertainty. The Amsterdam-headquartered market-maker runs separate loops for the US (Chicago), EU (Amsterdam), and APAC (Sydney, Hong Kong) offices, with some role specialization by region.

IMC Trading's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 emphasizes C++ proficiency, low-latency design, and collaborative engineering. The Amsterdam-headquartered market-maker has a culture of pairing engineers tightly with traders. Expect coding rounds, system design questions, and a behavioral round emphasizing teamwork.

Instacart's new-grad Growth Engineer loop in 2026 adds one growth-flavored round on top of the standard SWE coding/behavioral set. Expect questions on A/B testing rigor, funnel analytics, experimentation infrastructure, and the product reality of squeezing percentage points out of a multi-sided marketplace funnel. The role lives close to acquisition, activation, and retention surfaces.

Instacart's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering two coding rounds, system fundamentals, and behavioral. Marketplace dynamics (supply, demand, pricing, batching) flavor the system rounds. The org has been public since 2023 and the engineering culture leans pragmatic.

Instacart's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA, and a 2-3 round virtual interview. Intern interviews emphasize data structures, algorithms, and one behavioral round. Project teams range from consumer app to shopper logistics to ML; you usually get matched after the offer.

Intel's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to five round virtual onsite covering coding, computer architecture, and behavioral. Software roles span compilers (LLVM, oneAPI), graphics (Arc), datacenter software, AI/Habana, and platform firmware. Computer architecture knowledge matters more here than at most pure-software companies.

Intel's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a two to three round virtual interview covering coding, computer architecture basics, and a behavioral. Intern roles span compilers (LLVM, oneAPI), graphics drivers (Arc), AI software (Habana), datacenter tooling, and platform firmware. Intel intern bars are lighter on algorithm depth than new-grad but include architecture questions even for interns.

Intuit's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-5 round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, customer obsession, leadership, and a team match. Intuit makes TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mailchimp, and Credit Karma — financial-services flavor in technical questions.

Jane Street's new-grad quant research loop in 2026 is a coding test, a phone interview, and a multi-round virtual onsite covering probability, mental math, brainteasers, and trading-game mechanics. The bar on math intuition under time pressure is the dominant signal — interviewers care less about whether you remember a specific identity and more about how you reason out loud.

Jane Street's quant intern loop in 2026 mirrors the full-time loop with slightly shorter onsite: probability, mental math, market-making games, and a behavioral round. The internship is the firm's primary new-grad pipeline; conversion rates are high for strong performers. Loops in 2026 are predominantly virtual with optional in-person final at NY.

Jane Street's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is one of the most distinctive in the industry: OCaml exposure preferred (though not strictly required), heavy emphasis on functional programming concepts, and rigorous low-level systems questions. Engineers and traders share the office and many interview rounds; expect probability and brainteasers even on the engineering track.

JPMorgan's Quantitative Research (QR) new-grad loop in 2026 is a math/probability online assessment, a technical phone screen, and a four-round superday covering probability theory, stochastic calculus basics, a Python coding round, and a fit interview. QR sits inside the Corporate & Investment Bank and supports trading desks — the loop emphasizes derivative pricing intuition, numerical methods, and clarity of mathematical writing.

JPMorgan Chase's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a HireVue video assessment, a HackerRank coding round, and a virtual superday with two technical interviews and one behavioral. The bar emphasizes Java fluency, financial-domain literacy, and a regulatory mindset — the bank ships software inside Federal Reserve constraints, and the loop tests whether you can think that way.

JPMorgan's Software Engineer Internship loop in 2026 (also branded as the Software Engineer Program) is a HireVue, a HackerRank coding test, and a virtual superday with one technical and one behavioral. Bar is lighter than the new-grad loop but the firm still expects fluency in Java basics, a regulatory mindset, and a clear answer for why finance versus tech-first.

Jump Trading's new-grad quant researcher loop in 2026 emphasizes probability, statistics, and the ability to discuss research methodology rigorously. Jump is famously secretive about its operations — interviews focus on first-principles reasoning rather than industry-specific knowledge. The firm runs separate loops for the Chicago, New York, London, Singapore, and Bristol offices.

Jump Trading's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 emphasizes systems engineering, low-level performance, and C++ proficiency. The firm is famously secretive about specifics — interview questions test first-principles understanding of computer architecture, networks, and concurrent programming. Jump has separate engineering tracks for trading systems, infrastructure, and increasingly DeFi/crypto.

Juniper Networks' new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, networking fundamentals, and behavioral. Hiring is centered on Junos OS, Mist AI (cloud-managed networking), Apstra (intent-based networking), and security software. Note: Juniper is being acquired by HPE; some loops have been paused or rerouted pending closure.

Kakao's new-grad SWE loop in Seoul in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a multi-stage coding test (often the famous Kakao Blind Recruitment programming test), a technical phone interview, and a multi-round virtual onsite. Korean tech-giant interviews are intense: the OA can be 4-7 problems over 4-5 hours. Strong algorithmic ability is expected.

Klarna's new-grad SWE loop based out of Stockholm in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a HackerRank assessment, a technical phone interview, and a three to four round virtual onsite. The Stockholm HQ rounds emphasize cross-timezone collaboration, written async communication, and financial-product intuition (idempotency, reconciliation, rounding). Visa sponsorship for non-EU candidates is supported.

Klarna's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA on HackerRank, one technical phone screen, and a three to four round virtual onsite. Coding rounds skew medium. The European HQ leads to global recruiting timelines and an emphasis on async, written communication. Mission-fit framing on responsible consumer credit matters.

LangChain's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one take-home, and three to four virtual onsite rounds. The company maintains widely-used open-source frameworks for building applications with language models — interviews favor strong open-source instincts and API-design taste.

Lenovo's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, OS or systems fundamentals, and behavioral. Software roles span ThinkPad/IdeaPad client software, ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile (server/HCI infrastructure, formerly IBM x86 server business), Motorola Mobility (acquired 2014), and Lenovo Cloud Services. Loops vary by division — client teams ask web/UX, infrastructure teams ask C/C++ and OS internals.

LINE's new-grad SWE loop in Tokyo in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a coding assessment, two technical interviews, and a behavioral/cultural fit panel. LINE is Japan's dominant messaging platform with strong presence in fintech (LINE Pay), commerce (LINE Shopping), and entertainment. Engineering rounds skew toward distributed-systems thinking at messaging scale.

Linear's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, a take-home or paired build, and behavioral. Linear is small and craft-obsessed — speed of execution and code quality both matter.

LinkedIn's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-5 round virtual onsite covering coding, host manager, system fundamentals, behavioral (LiHelp + Culture), and team match. LinkedIn is professional networking, jobs, and feed; graph and recommendation problems are common.

LlamaIndex's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one take-home (sometimes), one technical phone screen, and three to four virtual onsite rounds. The company builds open-source frameworks for data-aware language model applications — interviews favor strong open-source instincts and retrieval-engineering taste.

Lyft's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and a hiring-manager round. Lyft is rideshare, real-time dispatch, and pricing; geospatial and matching problems show up.

Marqeta's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite. Coding rounds skew medium; one round usually covers card-processing or payments concepts. As a card-issuing platform, Marqeta interviews probe API design and idempotency thinking directly.

Mercari's new-grad SWE loop in Tokyo in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a coding assessment, a technical phone interview, and a three to four round virtual onsite. Mercari is Japan's leading C2C marketplace with strong US presence and is known for being one of the most foreigner-friendly tech employers in Japan — English is the working language in many teams.

Mercury's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, a project deep-dive, and behavioral. Mercury is craft-and-Haskell-heavy on the backend; loops favor strong fundamentals and a thoughtful pace.

Meta's E3 new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one or two technical phone screens, and a full-day virtual onsite of two coding rounds and one behavioral (Jedi) round. Coding rounds favor common LeetCode patterns from a curated tag set, with a strong preference for speed and clean code.

Microsoft's level-59 new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite. Coding rounds favor classic data structures and edge-case rigor over heavy algorithm tricks. Behavioral questions emphasize growth mindset, customer obsession, and collaboration.

Midjourney's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one take-home, and three to four virtual onsite rounds. The team runs lean and ships consumer products with creative-tool DNA — interviews favor candidates with strong code-quality discipline and product instincts.

Modal's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and three to four virtual onsite rounds. The company builds a serverless platform for compute-heavy Python workloads — interviews favor candidates who think clearly about containers, sandboxing, and the developer experience of running code in the cloud.

MongoDB's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four to five round virtual onsite. Coding rounds skew toward practical data-structure problems, with one round dedicated to database-systems fundamentals (storage, indexing, concurrency). Strong interest in distributed databases is a real signal.

Monzo's new-grad SWE loop in London in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a take-home coding task, a technical phone interview, and a three to four round virtual onsite. Monzo is famously transparent (open salary bands, public engineering blog) and the interview reflects that — clear rubrics, structured behavioral questions, and a heavy emphasis on Go-based microservice fundamentals.

MosaicML's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 (now part of Databricks' AI research arm) is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and four virtual onsite rounds. The team builds open-source training tooling and infrastructure for large model training — interviews favor candidates who think clearly about distributed compute and ML systems.

N26's new-grad SWE loop in Berlin in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a take-home or HackerRank assessment, a technical phone interview, and a three to four round virtual onsite. As a digital bank, N26 emphasizes JVM stack fundamentals, distributed-systems thinking, and EU regulatory awareness. Berlin HQ values strong written communication and async collaboration across timezones.

NetApp's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, storage and OS fundamentals, and behavioral. Software roles span ONTAP (on-prem storage OS), BlueXP (cloud management), Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and Spot (cloud cost optimization, acquired 2020). Loops emphasize filesystems, RAID, and distributed-storage concepts.

Notion's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite covering coding, frontend or product work, and behavioral. Notion looks for craft — code quality, attention to UX details, and product taste.

NVIDIA's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is highly team-specific — driver, compiler, ML systems, robotics, and applications teams each design their own loop. Generally: recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four to five round virtual onsite with two coding rounds, one domain round, one behavioral, and sometimes a project deep-dive. C++ depth is heavily favored on many teams.

Optiver's new-grad quant researcher loop in 2026 is the most famously mental-math-heavy interview in the industry. The Amsterdam-headquartered market-maker uses standardized assessments globally, with a coin-flip game and 80-question arithmetic test featured prominently. Expect probability puzzles, brainteasers, and trading-game simulations.

Optiver's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 emphasizes C++ proficiency, systems-level thinking, and the ability to discuss low-latency design intuitively. Engineers and traders share office space and culture; expect probability questions to appear on engineering rounds. The firm runs separate loops for Amsterdam, Chicago, Sydney, and Hong Kong offices.

Oracle's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, database fundamentals, and behavioral. Loops vary considerably by org — OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), database, applications, and Java platform teams each emphasize different skills. Expect at least one question on SQL or database internals.

Oracle's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a two to three round virtual interview covering coding, basic SQL, and a behavioral. Interns typically convert to new-grad direct-hire roles in the same division. OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) intern loops are faster and more coding-heavy; database and applications intern loops include more SQL and conceptual database questions.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, distributed systems, and behavioral. OCI is Oracle's second-generation cloud — built from scratch to compete with AWS/Azure/GCP. Loops here are coding-heavy with explicit distributed-systems and cloud-fundamentals questions, distinct from traditional Oracle database/applications loops.

Palantir's Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) new-grad loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-5 round onsite emphasizing coding, data integration, customer-empathy, and ambiguity-handling. FDE is Palantir's signature role — engineers embedded with customer organizations to deploy and customize the platform.

Palantir's intern SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a HackerRank online assessment, and two virtual technical interviews. The bar emphasizes fundamentals — clean code, complexity awareness, and the ability to discuss your reasoning while implementing. Palantir's intern program is selective and conversion-heavy.

Palantir's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a HackerRank online assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual or in-person onsite covering coding, data-modeling, system design, and behavioral. Palantir favors generalists who can think about messy data and write clean code in any language.

PayPal's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and a team-fit conversation. PayPal is global payments and includes Venmo and Braintree; expect questions on transactions, fraud, and high-volume systems.

Perplexity's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and four to five virtual onsite rounds. The company builds an answer engine that combines search, retrieval, and generative models — interviews favor candidates with strong fundamentals and a search-engineering mindset.

Pinecone's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four to five round virtual onsite. The company runs a managed vector database — interviews favor candidates who think clearly about indexes, distance metrics, and the storage-vs-compute tradeoffs of search.

Pinterest's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-5 round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and a hiring-manager conversation. Pinterest is image-and-discovery focused; recommendation and image-processing themes show up as flavor.

Pinterest's intern SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, and two technical interviews plus a behavioral. The bar is lower than new-grad; Pinterest still screens for curiosity and product instinct.

Plaid's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite covering coding, system design (lightweight), and behavioral. Plaid screens hard for product sense and ownership — engineers ship to banks and fintechs, so reliability mindset matters.

Plaid's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA on HackerRank, and a two to three round virtual interview. Coding rounds skew medium with a focus on practical engineering and API thinking. Intern conversion to new-grad is the primary path Plaid hires juniors — strong interns get strong return offers.

Point72's new-grad quant researcher loop in 2026 covers probability, statistics, ML methodology, and a deep technical conversation about research interests. Point72 runs both a discretionary side (the original hedge fund) and a systematic side (Cubist Systematic Strategies) with distinct hiring loops. New-grad quant research is typically through Cubist or Point72's Academy program.

Qualcomm's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, embedded systems or DSP fundamentals, and behavioral. Software roles span modem firmware, Snapdragon platform software, AI/Hexagon, automotive (Snapdragon Cockpit), and IoT. Most roles are in San Diego, Boulder, or Raleigh; some are hybrid-required.

Qualcomm's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a two to three round virtual interview covering coding, embedded systems or DSP fundamentals, and a behavioral. Intern roles span modem firmware, Snapdragon platform software, AI/Hexagon, automotive, and IoT. Conversion to a new-grad direct-hire is common. Most intern programs are in San Diego or Boulder; some are hybrid-required.

Ramp's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite covering coding, system design (lightweight), and behavioral. Ramp is famously fast-shipping and product-engineer-first; rounds favor practical thinking and execution speed.

Reddit's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-5 round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and team match. Reddit is community-driven content with massive scale; expect questions on ranking, comment trees, and high-volume read/write systems.

Replicate's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and three to four virtual onsite rounds. The company runs a cloud platform for AI models — interviews favor candidates who think clearly about containers, GPUs, and serving infrastructure.

Replit's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, a project deep-dive or take-home, and behavioral. Replit hires for full-stack range and curiosity about developer tools and AI-augmented coding workflows.

Retool's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, a project deep-dive, and behavioral. Retool builds an internal-tool platform — engineers should expect product-engineer thinking and full-stack work.

Revolut's new-grad SWE loop in London in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a CodeSignal assessment, a technical phone interview, and a four to five round virtual onsite. Revolut is known for a high-bar process with strong emphasis on coding depth, speed, and live problem-solving under pressure. Rounds often include a take-home project review.

Rippling's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four to five round virtual onsite covering coding, system design (lightweight), and behavioral. Rippling builds across many product surfaces — HR, payroll, IT, finance — so engineers need range.

Robinhood's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA, one technical phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite. Coding rounds skew medium-hard; one round typically covers financial-systems concepts (order matching, risk, idempotency). Cultural fit and customer-mission framing matter — Robinhood interviewers probe interest in retail finance and the consumer angle.

Roblox's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-5 round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and a fundamentals/CS deep dive. Roblox is a 3D platform with massive real-time multiplayer; expect questions on physics, networking, and graphics depending on the team.

Runway's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and four virtual onsite rounds. The company builds generative video and media tools — interviews favor candidates with strong product instincts who also understand how to ship performant applications around heavyweight ML models.

Salesforce's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, OOP/design, system fundamentals, and behavioral. Salesforce is a large org with Futureforce as the formal new-grad program; cloud, CRM, and multi-tenant themes show up.

SAP's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, database/SAP-product fundamentals, and behavioral. SAP's enterprise scale means engineers work on multi-tenant systems serving large customers. Loops vary by org — HANA, S/4HANA, Concur, Ariba, and SuccessFactors each emphasize different skills.

SAP's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a two to three round virtual interview covering coding, basic database/SQL, and a behavioral. Interns enter primarily through the iXp (SAP Internship Experience program), which is structured and global. Conversion to a new-grad direct-hire role is common for top performers. Intern bars are lower than new-grad with more weight on curiosity and learning aptitude.

Scale AI's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a four to five round virtual onsite covering coding, system design (lightweight), and behavioral. Scale operates large data labeling and ML evaluation pipelines; engineers need to think about throughput, correctness, and operational scale.

ServiceNow's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA on HackerRank, one technical phone screen, and a four to five round virtual onsite. Coding rounds skew medium with Java being the most common language. Behavioral rounds probe customer-empathy and enterprise-software thinking — ServiceNow's culture leans practical and product-focused.

Shopify's new-grad SWE loop in Toronto in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a take-home or pair-programming exercise, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, life-story narrative, and a deep technical pairing session. Coding rounds emphasize working software over algorithmic optimization, and Ruby is the dominant production language though interviews are language-agnostic.

Shopify's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a Pair Programming Exercise (PPE) take-home or live, and a Life Story plus three technical onsite rounds. Shopify weights mission and craft as heavily as raw coding ability — the Life Story round is a real signal, not a formality.

Shopify's intern SWE loop in 2026 (the Dev Degree and standard internship tracks both follow a similar pattern) is a recruiter screen, a coding challenge, a Life Story round, and a technical interview. Compared to new-grad, the bar on the coding round is lower but craft and curiosity matter just as much.

Skyscanner's new-grad SWE loop in Edinburgh in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an OA, a technical phone interview, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, system design, and behavioral. Travel-search domain framing is common, including queries about caching flight prices, ranking results, and handling intermittent partner APIs. Edinburgh HQ is collaborative and pace is steady rather than frantic.

Snap's new-grad AR Engineer loop in 2026 adds one AR / camera platform-specific round on top of the standard SWE coding/behavioral set. Expect questions on real-time computer vision, GPU performance budgets, 3D math, and the production reality of running ML on a phone's camera at 30+ FPS. The role lives close to the Lens Studio, camera platform, and Spectacles teams.

Snap's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering two coding rounds, system fundamentals, and behavioral. Mobile-first context matters — Snap is iOS-and-Android first, web second. Creativity in technical work is real evaluative signal.

Snap's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA, and a 2-3 round virtual interview. Intern interviews emphasize data structures, algorithms, and one behavioral round. Internship project teams range from camera platform to ad infrastructure; you usually get matched after the offer.

Snowflake's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA (HackerRank or CodeSignal), one technical phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite covering coding, data-structures depth, system understanding, and behavioral. The bar is heavy on data-systems intuition: candidates report frequent questions on storage layouts, query execution, and concurrency.

Snowflake's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one online assessment, and a two-round virtual interview. Intern candidates report a faster timeline than new-grads — typically 3-4 weeks — with a lighter system-knowledge bar but the same coding depth. Conversion to new-grad offer is common for strong interns.

SoFi's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA, one technical phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite. Coding rounds skew medium with a focus on practical correctness. SoFi's product spans lending, banking, investing, and crypto — the interview shape varies slightly by team.

SpaceX's Flight Software new-grad loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a hiring manager call, a technical phone screen, and a 5-6 round onsite covering C++ depth, real-time systems, embedded fundamentals, safety-critical thinking, and mission-fit behavioral. Flight Software runs the code on the vehicle itself — Falcon, Dragon, Starship — where a bug becomes a Loss of Mission. The bar is the highest in SpaceX engineering.

SpaceX's intern SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a hiring manager call, and one or two technical interviews. The bar is fundamentals plus genuine mission interest. Interns work on production code from day one and conversion to full-time is meaningful for high performers.

SpaceX's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a hiring manager call, a technical phone screen, and a 4-6 round onsite covering coding, systems debugging, and mission-fit behavioral. SpaceX interviewers value first-principles thinking, ownership, and willingness to work intensely. Teams span vehicle software, Starlink, ground systems, and manufacturing tools.

Splunk's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA on HackerRank, one technical phone screen, and a four to five round virtual onsite. Coding rounds skew medium with a focus on practical correctness; one round typically covers data-systems or security concepts (log processing, parsing, ingestion). Take-home options exist for some roles.

Spotify's new-grad SWE loop in Stockholm in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a coding assessment, a technical phone interview, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, system design fundamentals, and cultural fit. Rounds are conversational rather than adversarial, with the famous 'Spotify model' of autonomous squads heavily reflected in the behavioral questions.

Spotify's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and a values fit. Spotify is audio-streaming with deep recommendation and discovery layers; expect questions flavored by audio metadata, playlists, and ranking.

Square (now under Block) hires new-grad SWE through a recruiter screen, one OA, one technical phone screen, and a four-round virtual onsite. Coding rounds skew medium-hard with a focus on practical correctness. Block has multiple product brands (Square sellers, Cash App, TBD, Spiral) — the loop varies slightly by team.

Stability AI's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and three to four virtual onsite rounds. The company builds and ships open-weight generative models — interviews favor candidates who care about the developer experience of deploying these models in production.

Supabase's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, a take-home, and behavioral. Supabase is open-source-first and fully remote — async communication, written clarity, and public work all count heavily.

Susquehanna's (SIG) new-grad quant researcher loop in 2026 is famously poker- and game-theory-influenced — the firm uses card games and decision-making puzzles as a centerpiece of evaluation. Probability, EV calculations, and risk tolerance are the main signals. Expect a long, structured loop with multiple rounds at the Bala Cynwyd PA headquarters or virtual equivalents.

Tesla's Autonomy / Autopilot / FSD SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a hiring manager call, a technical phone screen, and a 4-5 round onsite covering coding, computer-vision or perception fundamentals, systems debugging, and behavioral. The Autonomy bar is the highest at Tesla — C++ depth, real-time systems comfort, and ML or robotics background are all expected.

Tesla's intern SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a hiring manager call, and one or two technical interviews. Tesla skips standardized OAs more often than peers — the hiring manager gets first say on fit. Interns work on real production code and the conversion-to-full-time funnel is meaningful for high performers.

Tesla's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a hiring manager call, an online coding assessment, and a 4-5 round virtual or in-person onsite. Tesla interviewers favor first-principles thinking, hands-on engineering instincts, and a tight feedback loop between hardware and software. Teams range across vehicle firmware, Manufacturing, Energy, and supply-chain platforms.

TikTok's (ByteDance's) MLE new-grad loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding + ML assessment, and a 5-round virtual onsite covering coding, ML fundamentals, system design for ML, recommendation-system intuition, and behavioral. The recommendation team is TikTok's signature engineering org — bar is high, and the loop probes both ML depth and production-engineering ability.

TikTok's (ByteDance's) intern SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, and two virtual technical interviews. The bar emphasizes leetcode-style problem solving and clean coding under time pressure. Interns work on real production code and conversion rates for high performers are strong.

TikTok's (ByteDance's) new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a hiring manager call, and a 4-5 round virtual onsite covering coding, system design, and behavioral. The loop is leetcode-heavy with strong system-design expectations even at new grad level. Teams span TikTok app, ads, monetization, infrastructure, and content moderation.

Toast's Payments Engineer new-grad loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an OA, and a 4-round virtual onsite with extra weight on domain knowledge: card-present vs card-not-present, tipping, split-check accounting, and chargeback handling. Toast Payments processes a meaningful share of US restaurant transactions, so reliability and reconciliation are first-class concerns in the interview.

Toast's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, a technical phone screen, and a virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, and behavioral. Toast builds the restaurant operating system — POS, payments, online ordering, payroll — so candidates with restaurant or hospitality exposure get a small but real signal advantage.

Toast's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a two-round virtual interview. Toast converts a high share of strong-performing interns to full-time new-grad offers, so the intern bar is calibrated as a future-hire signal. Restaurant-domain interest helps in the behavioral round.

Together AI's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and three to four virtual onsite rounds. The company runs a cloud platform for training and serving open-source models at scale — interviews favor candidates who think clearly about GPUs, distributed compute, and the economics of running inference.

Tower Research Capital's new-grad quant researcher loop in 2026 is heavily probability and brainteaser focused, with a strong emphasis on coding clean Python or C++ under time pressure. The firm runs multiple trading groups (Latour, Spire, Tower) and the team you interview with shapes loop emphasis.

Tower Research Capital's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 emphasizes systems engineering, C++ proficiency, and low-latency design. The firm runs multiple trading groups (Latour, Spire) with semi-independent engineering teams. Expect coding rounds, system design questions, and a behavioral component evaluating collaboration and ownership.

Twilio's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and a team-fit conversation. Twilio is a communications-platform company; messaging, voice, and webhook scenarios show up in technical questions.

Twilio's intern SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, and two technical interviews plus a behavioral. The bar is lower than new-grad but Twilio still screens hard for API-thinking and developer-empathy.

Two Sigma's quant intern loop in 2026 emphasizes probability, statistics, ML foundations, and the ability to think clearly about research methodology. The internship is the firm's primary new-grad pipeline. Conversion rates are high for strong performers. Two Sigma's intern program runs 10-12 weeks with structured project work and senior researcher mentorship.

Two Sigma's new-grad quant research loop in 2026 emphasizes statistical reasoning, machine-learning foundations, and the ability to debate research methodology under questioning. The firm's research culture leans more academic than other hedge funds — expect to defend assumptions and discuss trade-offs in model selection.

Two Sigma's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 emphasizes data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems thinking. The firm has a 'modern' engineering culture closer to tech companies than other quant firms, with strong investment in research infrastructure and ML tooling. Engineers work on the platform that quantitative researchers use, with significant downstream impact.

Uber's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-5 round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and a hiring-manager conversation. Uber is rideshare, food delivery, and logistics at scale; expect dispatch, ETA, and marketplace questions.

Unity's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a technical phone screen, and a 3-4 round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, a CS deep dive, and behavioral. Unity is a game engine and real-time 3D platform; engine teams probe graphics, physics, and performance; ads/services teams probe distributed systems.

Vellum's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and three to four virtual onsite rounds. The company builds developer tooling for evaluating, prompting, and deploying large language models — interviews favor candidates with full-stack instincts and a clear DX mindset.

Vercel's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, a project-style or take-home build, and behavioral. Vercel deeply hires for web platform depth — knowing the browser, HTTP, and Node well counts.

Virtu Financial's new-grad quant researcher loop in 2026 emphasizes probability, time-series analysis, and market microstructure. As a publicly-traded market-maker, Virtu's interviews lean more toward execution and microstructure questions than pure brainteasers. The firm runs separate loops for the US (New York), EU (Dublin, Amsterdam), and APAC (Singapore) offices.

Virtu Financial's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 emphasizes systems engineering, real-time data processing, and low-latency design. As a publicly-traded firm, Virtu has more public information about its engineering culture than peer firms. The loop covers coding, system design, and a behavioral round emphasizing ownership.

VMware's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a three to four round virtual onsite covering coding, OS or virtualization fundamentals, and behavioral. Post-Broadcom acquisition, VMware is now part of Broadcom Software Group; hiring has consolidated around vSphere, NSX, Tanzu, and Workspace ONE. Loops emphasize OS internals and distributed-systems thinking.

VMware's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, and a two to three round virtual interview covering coding, OS or virtualization fundamentals, and a behavioral. Post-Broadcom acquisition, VMware's intern program continues at a smaller scale, focused on vSphere, NSX, and Tanzu. Confirm with your recruiter that the team is actively hiring interns before investing prep time.

Walmart Global Tech's Data Engineer new-grad loop in 2026 is a HackerRank with SQL, a phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering SQL deep-dive, pipeline design at petabyte scale, a coding round, and behavioral. Walmart's data footprint is among the largest in retail — billions of point-of-sale events, supply-chain telemetry, customer interactions — and the loop reflects that scale.

Walmart Global Tech's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a HackerRank, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite testing data structures, system design at retail scale, a coding deep-dive, and a behavioral round on Walmart's leadership principles. The org powers walmart.com, the in-store tech, and the supply chain — the loop reflects that breadth, with at least one question that touches retail or supply-chain context.

Walmart Global Tech's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a HackerRank and a 2-round virtual onsite with one technical and one behavioral. The intern bar is real but calibrated for undergrads, and intern-to-full-time conversion is a major hiring channel. Interns spend the summer on a team building real features at retail scale.

Wayfair's new-grad Search Engineer loop in 2026 adds one search/ranking-specific round on top of the standard SWE coding/behavioral set. Expect questions on learning-to-rank, relevance evaluation, personalization, and the production reality of serving search across a million-plus-SKU catalog. The role lives close to the search infrastructure, ranking, and personalization teams.

Wayfair's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering two coding rounds, system fundamentals, and behavioral. E-commerce-at-scale flavor runs through the systems rounds — product catalog, inventory, search, fulfillment. Boston is the primary hub.

Wayfair's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA, and a 2-3 round virtual interview. Intern interviews emphasize data structures, algorithms, and one behavioral round. Project teams range from consumer app to catalog to logistics; team matching usually happens after the offer.

Waymo's Perception Engineer new-grad loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an OA, and a 5-round virtual onsite with significant emphasis on computer vision, sensor fusion, and the ML pipelines that turn LIDAR and camera data into tracked objects. Perception is the entry point of the autonomy stack — bugs here cascade everywhere — so the bar is calibrated higher than generalist SWE.

Waymo's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an OA, a phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite. Backend is C++ heavy with Python for tooling and ML workflows. New-grads do not need autonomous-driving experience but should be comfortable in C++ and have at least one strong CS-fundamentals story (operating systems, distributed systems, or computer vision).

Waymo's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an OA, and a 2-3 round virtual interview. The intern program is small and selective; Waymo prefers students with prior computer-vision, robotics, or systems coursework. C++ proficiency is strongly preferred. Conversion to new-grad is the typical path for top performers.

Weaviate's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a technical phone screen, and three to four virtual onsite rounds. The company builds an open-source vector database — interviews favor candidates who can read open-source code, contribute to public projects, and reason about search-index tradeoffs.

Weights & Biases's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one technical phone screen, and four to five virtual onsite rounds. The company builds developer tooling for ML practitioners (experiment tracking, model registry, evaluation) — interviews favor full-stack candidates with strong product instincts.

Wise's new-grad SWE loop in London in 2026 is a recruiter screen, a take-home coding task, a technical phone interview, and a three to four round virtual onsite. Wise (formerly TransferWise) emphasizes mission alignment (transparent cross-border money), strong written communication, and async work patterns. Rounds skew toward practical problem-solving over leetcode tricks.

Workday's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and a team match. Workday is enterprise HR and Finance SaaS; expect questions on data modeling and access control.

X's new-grad MLE loop in 2026 adds one ML-specific round on top of the standard SWE coding/behavioral set. Expect questions on recommendation algorithms, feature engineering, online learning, and the production reality of ranking content for hundreds of millions of users. The role lives close to the For You timeline, Spotlight ranking, and ads relevance teams.

X's (formerly Twitter) new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering two coding rounds, system fundamentals, and behavioral. The org runs leaner than the pre-2022 Twitter era; engineers ship across the stack. Be ready for distributed-systems flavored questions even at new-grad level.

X's SWE intern loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, one OA, and a 2-3 round virtual interview. Intern interviews emphasize data structures, algorithms, and one behavioral round. The intern program is leaner than the pre-2022 Twitter era — fewer headcount, higher ownership per intern.

Yelp's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and team match. Yelp is a local business discovery platform; search, ranking, and review-trust questions show up.

Zendesk's new-grad SWE loop in 2026 is a recruiter screen, an online coding assessment, a technical phone screen, and a 4-round virtual onsite covering coding, system fundamentals, behavioral, and a project review. Zendesk's stack is Ruby on Rails, Java, and JavaScript; expect API-centric questions.