I applied online. I interviewed at Circle Internet Financial in Jan 2025
Interview
I received a take-home challenge through the CodeSignal platform from a recruiter. The challenge was supposed to take one hour to complete and included four steps. I managed to finish 3 out of 4 steps within the time limit.
However, the next day, I got an email from CodeSignal saying they couldn’t verify my assessment because I either screenshared or copied the problem description. This was confusing since I had my screen shared the entire time, my camera was on, and I even scanned my ID — all of this for a simple take-home assessment.
After spending a lot of time thinking about what could have gone wrong, I realized that I had copied the function signature from the problem description and pasted it into the code window to save time because CodeSignal’s autocomplete wasn’t working. I genuinely believe no developer from their team tested the take-home challenge, or they would have faced the same issue.
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Circle Internet Financial in Jun 2026
Interview
Started with OA on codesignal asking to design a system to track worker's working hour. 4 levels, must pass level 3 to proceed to next round of the interview. I did not pass.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system to track worker's working hour with timestamp.
I applied online. I interviewed at Circle Internet Financial
Interview
AVOID.
Hour+ online technical assessment. AFTER SIX WEEKS a recruiter contacted me to advance my candidacy. Was mostly interested in why I wanted to work for Circle and didn't care about much else. TWO MORE WEEKS WENT BY before receiving a generic rejection email.
This was a laughable process because the invitation to take the online coding assessment stated that I should contact my recruiter if I had any questions. Except that the recruiter provided no valid phone number or email address, only their LinkedIn profile. I messaged them twice via LI and never received a response, despite having scored 100% on the coding exam.
If they mistreat candidates this way, imagine how they treat employees.
Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Circle Internet Financial with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 20% positive. To compare, the company-average is 26.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 10 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Circle Internet Financial overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Circle Internet Financial as a Senior Software Engineer according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 38%
Skills test: 25%
Group panel interview: 25%
One on one interview: 13%
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