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← Glean

Staff+ Backend at Glean

BackendStaff+Outcome unknown◆ Commonly asked· 2025

5-round staff backend process. Balanced across coding, design, and collaboration.

The loop · 5 rounds

01

Round 01 · 3 questions

DSA / Coding

Data structures & algorithms on a whiteboard or shared editor.

  • Longest palindromic substring.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #string#dp
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • House robber.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #dp
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • Combination sum.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #backtracking
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
02

Round 02 · 1 question

Low-Level Design

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

  • Design a hotel-reservation system core.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #oop#concurrency
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
03

Round 03 · 2 questions

System Design

High-level architecture of a large-scale system.

  • Design a content delivery network (CDN).
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #cdn#cache#edge
    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.

  • How do you balance tech debt against feature work?
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #prioritization
05

Round 05 · 2 questions

Behavioral / HR

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

  • Describe a disagreement on a code review and how it ended.
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #conflict#star
  • A time you made a mistake in production — what happened next?
    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.