Silly interview process. The technical challenge was a coding puzzle disguised as a “real life scenario at Vanta”. Interviewer was aloof and didn’t really interact much as I was solving and communicating through the solution.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Solve this real world problem that’s actually a coding puzzle
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Vanta (San Francisco, CA) en févr. 2026
Entretien
Really enjoyed the conversations, had a leetcode style phone interview. Onsite was 50% behavioral and 50% technical. System design + backend practical. Backend practical was coding plus understanding of distributed systems.
J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. J'ai passé un entretien chez Vanta en févr. 2026
Entretien
Talked to the recruiter and then scheduled a tech interview. The tech interview was 45 minutes with a senior engineer, but as usual my ADHD stepped up and doomed spiraled my brain into locking up. I didn't even remember that I have half a dozen working examples on my GitHub. "Code testing" so messed up for our career choice.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Build a recursive function. I still can't believe this is used as an interview question. In my 25+ years as a software engineer, I can count the number of times I have use one on one hand. Actually on half a hand... There's is always a better choice than recursion.
J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. J'ai passé un entretien chez Vanta en janv. 2026
Entretien
I had a phone call with recruiter after which they scheduled a leetcode style coding problem for 1 hour. I am not certain if they had expectation of solving 2 problems in 1 hour because there was something being said about first we will solve this problem.
In any case, the 1st problem was on topological sorting and I solved it in python completely. At the end, I enevr got sent to next stage even after solving a medium difficulty problem involving topological sort not just some array sorting. I found that very strange and quite disappointing from interviewing standpoint.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Leetcode style question that involved topological sorting