I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Vercel (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2025
Interview
Total 5 rounds
1. Hiring Manager Screen
2. Technical Interview
3. Frontend Focused Interview
4. System Design
5. Chat with CPO
We reached to the end of 4 rounds, recruiter connected with me and said they are going to extend the offer. A day later he comes back and says we have decided to have you chat with CPO and then after the chat they said i don't know enough about vercel and hence we will pass.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Real life software engineering scenario questions in terms of parallel programming, scaling and caching
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Vercel in Jul 2025
Interview
Initial phone screen, values interview, technical deep dive, and a programming problem. Everyone was very friendly, the tech problem was leetcode easy. Finished the final round and got the rejection, but the recruiter followed up with a video call to give me the specific reason for why I was not selected, which I really appreciated.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function to count the number of hits a site gets and when, then a separate function to calculate the number of hits for a given time frame
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Vercel (Amsterdam) in Mar 2024
Interview
3 interviews, 1 introduction, 1 system design exercise with two engineering managers that are unable to explain any questions about the exercise and don't listen and 1 full stack coding challenge.