I applied online. I interviewed at Benchling (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2025
Interview
The first round is a coding interview with coderpad.
The key for success is to read their candidate packet thoroughly to understand the type of coding problem and the data example to be used in the interview,
Went well, very organized. Recruiter call and then coding interview (non-leetcode, more practical problem solving question). Very human, nice, and cooperative on all aspects of the process. Would interview again!
Lengthy and difficult interview process. Make sure to brush up on those leetcode hards and you should be good. Had an initial recruiter call which went through basic behavioral questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Benchling in Oct 2025
Interview
Virtual Onsite with 5 rounds divided into 2 days.
1st day:
15 min product overview
1st round: Product design type interview.
2nd round: Debugging + coding round
2nd day:
1 hour: Hiring Manager round
1.5 hour: Coding + System Design round
15 min with Recruiter
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question 1: was related to there internal product which support Google docs type editing & interviewer asked questions on how to support Bold, Color, Italic type formatting, adding tables, paragraphs etc and other part of the question was to store history of that doc basically all logs of data present in the doc.
Question 2: question specific to DNA sequence matching a problem was given debug test cases that are failing and fix it & then was asked to implement a string based DNA sequence matching.
