Company: ServiceNow
Team: Developer Productivity
Role: Software Engineer Intern
Location: San Diego, CA. Virtual loop
Date: October to December 2024
How it started: Cold application
Outcome: Withdrew. Results were delayed, and I had accepted Adobe in the meantime

The loop

Four rounds. The last three were all on the same afternoon.

Round 1. Recruiter screen. Why ServiceNow, why this role, and what I bring to it. Self rating: Strong Hire.

Round 2. Systems. 30 minutes with a senior engineering manager. High-level design and the CAP theorem, then behavioural questions and my projects. Self rating: Hire.

Round 3. Problem solving. 30 minutes with a staff engineer. One LeetCode medium on strings and hash maps, then my projects. Self rating: Strong Hire.

Round 4. Problem solving. 30 minutes with a senior staff engineer. One LeetCode medium, sliding window, then Docker and Kubernetes, then my projects. Self rating: Hire.

Happy to answer questions about the loop or the prep.

Full write-up: https://jenishkothari.pages.dev/four-rounds-at-servicenow/