Scale AI New Grad Software Engineer Interview Guide
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Scale AI Software Engineer Interview Experiences
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New Grad Software Engineer
Scale AIEntry Level / L3United States
Submitted Apr 13, 2026
VerifiedJanuary 2026RejectedDifficult
How was the overall interview process?
I cold applied early, and the first thing they sent me was a HackerRank, not a recruiter screen. After that, there was a gap of a few weeks, then I had a 60-minute technical screen followed by a back-to-back system design and debugging roun… see more
Questions asked
- Design an insurance-claims “agent” system that ingests claims and outputs an approval decision using RAG and infra/storage choices while controlling LLM/token cost.
- Solve an interval scheduling problem by finding “free time” intervals to accept queries.
- If you have multiple parties, how would you find the dead zones between their time intervals?
Software Engineer New Grad
Scale AIEntry Level / L3United States
Submitted May 5, 2026
OnsiteApril 2026In ProgressDifficult
How was the overall interview process?
I was given a PDF of questions related to the card game. I was asked to choose a language, I chose Python, and then I had to write complex Python logic to simulate the Card game amongst 4 players. The logic was not that hard; what was hard… see more
Questions asked
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