I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Drivemode in Feb 2026
Interview
Hiring Screen + 3 round interview
1st round was initial hackerrank assessment done live with an engineer proctor
2nd round was a very involved 90 minute behavioral
3rd round was a manual coding exercise simulating a real life event with a staff engineer
Straightforward process, good experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me to process an API request provided by Hackerrank problem and properly aggregate the results to output the desired information.
I applied online. I interviewed at Drivemode in May 2026
Interview
Recruiter told me there's "one data structure and algorithms question" in the HackerRank screening, but turned out it was a lie. The OA ended up having three questions total where two of them are related to backend. I only noticed this when I already clicked open the OA link, so of course there's no time for me to prepare for it and do well on the questions. So disappointing and unprofessional.
Drivemode interviews FAQs
Backend Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Drivemode with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 40% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Drivemode as a Backend Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
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