I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at HARVEY in Jan 2026
Interview
Initially contacted by recruiting agency. Initial screening round was taken by the same agency. All the later discussions were handled by company recruiter. Recruiter was very supportive and organised. The interview panel was really kind and empathetic, made sure that candidate feels comfortable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Initial screening round consisting of coding + system design.
Coding: Given start time and end time of tasks, calculate the number of machines required to finish the tasks.
System Design: Dropbox. Concentrating on pausing and resuming uploads and downloads.
On-site interview consists of 4 rounds:
1. Coding: Given a string and sources, write a program to calculate output.
input: "the quick brown fox"
sources: ["the quick", "quick brown"]
output: "the quick brown fox"
Expectation: Breaking the problem into multiple phases, writing clean and working code.
2. Deep dive on past project: Suggest to create a doc about your work that you want to present.
3. Impact and Collaboration : Behavioural questions
4. System Design : Provided a set of documents, queries/prompts being added columns, design system to display this in table format.