Etsy
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Interview in a few hours? A quick sprint for Etsy
AI in interviews
AI can help you draft a résumé or cover letter, but Etsy asks you not to use AI tools in live interviews. For take-home assignments you'll be asked which tools (including AI) you used; the page sets no explicit AI rule for live coding assessments, so assume none and check with your recruiter.
Typical interview loop
How Etsy usually runs it for applied AI and LLM engineer roles.
- Focus: Background, role fit
Recruiter / candidate screen
A first conversation where you learn about Etsy and the role and answer a few preliminary questions that decide whether you move on.
- Focus: Practical coding, debugging
Live coding / technical assessment
A virtual live session showing your problem solving in real time; one guide says it is often a practical exercise of reading unfamiliar code, fixing bugs and extending it, alongside classic data-structure work.
- Focus: Project depth, trade-offs
Technical deep dive
You walk through a substantial past project and defend the decisions and trade-offs you made.
- Focus: Data-heavy system design
System design
An architecture round that, per one guide, leans on data modelling and database trade-offs along with caching and replication.
- Focus: Collaboration, values fit
Behavioral / values interview
A conversation about your experience, problem solving and teamwork, checked against Etsy's mission and values, sometimes run by someone outside your team.
How it weights your plan
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Official prep and resources
Public candidate write-ups
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