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← Susquehanna

Staff+ Backend at Susquehanna

BackendStaff+Offer◆ Commonly asked· 2023

A staff backend loop. Fundamentals mattered as much as getting to an answer.

The loop · 5 rounds

01

Round 01 · 3 questions

DSA / Coding

Data structures & algorithms on a whiteboard or shared editor.

  • Longest consecutive sequence.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #hashmap#array
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • Group anagrams from a list of strings.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #hashmap#string
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
  • House robber.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #dp
    PracticeLeetCode↗GeeksforGeeks↗
02

Round 02 · 1 question

Low-Level Design

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

  • Design a splitwise-style expense sharer.
    Staff+Medium◆ Commonly asked
    #oop#graph
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
03

Round 03 · 2 questions

System Design

High-level architecture of a large-scale system.

  • Design a real-time fraud-detection pipeline.
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #streaming#ml
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
  • Design a search indexing pipeline (crawl to index to serve).
    Staff+Hard◆ Commonly asked
    #indexing#pipeline
    PracticeGeeksforGeeks↗Search↗
04

Round 04 · 1 question

Hiring Manager

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

  • How do you run an incident and the postmortem after?
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #reliability#process
05

Round 05 · 2 questions

Behavioral / HR

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

  • How do you handle competing priorities from two managers?
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #prioritization#star
  • When did you have to make a decision with incomplete data?
    Staff+◆ Commonly asked
    #judgment#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.