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Staff+ Backend at Figma

BackendStaff+Withdrew◆ Commonly asked· 2025

5-round staff backend process. Coding-heavy early, design and behavioral later.

The loop · 5 rounds

01

Round 01 · 3 questions

DSA / Coding

Data structures & algorithms on a whiteboard or shared editor.

  • Two Sum — return indices of numbers adding to a target.
    Staff+Easy◆ Commonly asked
    #array#hashmap
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • Find median from data stream.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #heap#design
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • Lowest common ancestor of a binary tree.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #tree
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
02

Round 02 · 1 question

Low-Level Design

Object-oriented / low-level design of a focused module.

  • Design a notification service (channels + templates).
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #oop
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
03

Round 03 · 2 questions

System Design

High-level architecture of a large-scale system.

  • Design a search indexing pipeline (crawl to index to serve).
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #indexing#pipeline
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
  • Design a metrics/time-series ingestion pipeline.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #time-series#ingestion
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
04

Round 04 · 1 question

Hiring Manager

Scope, ownership, and role-fit discussion with the manager.

  • Describe how you drove alignment across multiple teams.
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #collaboration#influence
05

Round 05 · 2 questions

Behavioral / HR

Values, collaboration, and past-experience (STAR) questions.

  • A time you made a mistake in production — what happened next?
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #ownership#star
  • Describe a time you improved a process or tool for your team.
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #ownership#star

◆ This experience is composed from commonly reported questions for this role and level. Real, individually-shared interviews will be layered in over time.