Toast Interview Questions

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.