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← Intercom

Staff+ Backend at Intercom

BackendStaff+Offer◆ Commonly asked· 2023

Staff backend interview. 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.

  • Search in a rotated sorted array.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #binary-search
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • Kth smallest element in a BST.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #tree#bst
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • Binary tree level order traversal.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #tree#bfs
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
02

Round 02 · 1 question

Low-Level Design

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

  • Design a movie-ticket booking system (BookMyShow).
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #oop#concurrency
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
03

Round 03 · 2 questions

System Design

High-level architecture of a large-scale system.

  • Design an object storage service like S3.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #storage#scale
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
  • Design a distributed cache.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #cache#consistency
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
04

Round 04 · 1 question

Hiring Manager

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

  • How do you evaluate and adopt a new technology?
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #judgment
05

Round 05 · 2 questions

Behavioral / HR

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

  • Tell me about a time you disagreed and committed.
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #teamwork#star
  • A time you made a mistake in production — what happened next?
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #ownership#star

Practice each round across every company

  • DSA / Coding
  • Low-Level Design
  • System Design
  • Hiring Manager
  • Behavioral / HR

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