Silly interview process. The technical challenge was a coding puzzle disguised as a “real life scenario at Vanta”. Interviewer was aloof and didn’t really interact much as I was solving and communicating through the solution.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Solve this real world problem that’s actually a coding puzzle
Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en Vanta (San Francisco, CA) en feb 2026
Entrevista
Really enjoyed the conversations, had a leetcode style phone interview. Onsite was 50% behavioral and 50% technical. System design + backend practical. Backend practical was coding plus understanding of distributed systems.
Solicité el puesto a través de la recomendación de un empleado. Acudí a una entrevista en Vanta en feb 2026
Entrevista
Talked to the recruiter and then scheduled a tech interview. The tech interview was 45 minutes with a senior engineer, but as usual my ADHD stepped up and doomed spiraled my brain into locking up. I didn't even remember that I have half a dozen working examples on my GitHub. "Code testing" so messed up for our career choice.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Build a recursive function. I still can't believe this is used as an interview question. In my 25+ years as a software engineer, I can count the number of times I have use one on one hand. Actually on half a hand... There's is always a better choice than recursion.
Solicité el puesto a través de la recomendación de un empleado. Acudí a una entrevista en Vanta en ene 2026
Entrevista
I had a phone call with recruiter after which they scheduled a leetcode style coding problem for 1 hour. I am not certain if they had expectation of solving 2 problems in 1 hour because there was something being said about first we will solve this problem.
In any case, the 1st problem was on topological sorting and I solved it in python completely. At the end, I enevr got sent to next stage even after solving a medium difficulty problem involving topological sort not just some array sorting. I found that very strange and quite disappointing from interviewing standpoint.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Leetcode style question that involved topological sorting
