Recruiter screen, technical interviews, and hiring manager interview (also technical). The technical screens were standard iOS tasks, such as "do stuff given this model" and "read data from an API". The last interview was with the HM but included iOS technical questions. The engineering interview panel appeared to lack diversity.
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Question 1
Typical mobile dev question - create an app that reads and displays data from API
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Perplexity AI (San Francisco, CA) in May 2026
Interview
Recruiter screen, online assessment. The online assessment is wildly difficult for candidates without specific domain knowledge, and definitely leetcode "hard" level even if you've seen the question before. Ultimately it is possible to figure it out with just DSA fundamentals, but seeing this problem beforehand would be an enormous advantage.
Completed OA after recruiter call. You have 4 hours to complete it but usually takes less than 2 hours. Got a rejection email from recruiter although passed all OA tests.
I applied online. I interviewed at Perplexity AI (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2026
Interview
First normal recruiter call, then moved on to machine coding round, where was tasked to solve questions regarding a real world problem, consisted of 5 parts, was able to solve 3 parts of it. The interviewer was nice, but I lacked timing.
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