I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Upside (Austin, TX) in Oct 2025
Interview
Recruiter screen then technical programming interview, then resume overview with manager. Recruiter technical was a simple overview of their company with a bit about my programming experience. Technical interview was your standard coding interview with what I would call Leetcode Easy or Medium question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write code to calculate time differences given date strings. Use Python. Question was on a shared coding site with a senior software engineer on a video call who could answer clarifying questions about the problem. Then, we had some time for me to ask questions to him about Upside’s dev culture.
Screening, Tech Interview with coding, Tech task, Manager Interview, Offer. Seems easy enough, but it's more complex in reality. Managerial interview make me feel bad but I still accepted offer due to the growing unemployement in my field aftre mass layoffs
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tree traversal question and simple queue management
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Upside in Nov 2022
Interview
They gave me a verbal offer and then rescinded the offer after two weeks of waiting for a written offer. Pretty unprofessional. I did atleast 6+ hours of interviews spread out over a couple weeks.