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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Nov 17, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Santa Barbara, CA

      Other Senior Software Engineer Interview Reviews for AppFolio

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Oct 30, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Denver, CO
      No offer
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at AppFolio (Santa Barbara, CA) in Oct 2025

      Interview

      The interview process has 5 steps. The first step of the interview process is with the recruiter. If this goes well you will have to schedule a technical assessment with engineers in the company. I was only able to get to the technical interview phase of which I thought went decently well. The interview was will ask you a series of systems interview questions and then you have to solve up a coding problem. I did solve the coding problem and the interviewer close the call. I waited over a week to hear back from my results and j never received a follow up from the recruiter. I reached out via email to follow up with the recruiters and still no response. I then decide to call the recruiter and it seems like she forgot about me. For other developers who are applying for this company, be careful as it seems like they like to ghost people during the process. I wouldn’t waste my time.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Basic system design questions were asked even though it was for a mobile role. Coding questions consisted of parsing out strings to simulate command line instructions.
      Answer question
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at AppFolio (Denver, CO) in Oct 2025

      Interview

      I recently completed a 75-minute screening that included: 2–3 behavioral questions 5 rapid-fire system-design questions a 45-minute coding round and a short window for me to ask questions The technical questions were fairly straightforward, and I felt confident in my responses — clear, structured, and technically sound. While I haven’t received feedback yet, my best guess is that my rejection may have stemmed from the Q&A portion. I asked a few candid questions about the product vision, team culture, and growth opportunities — the kind of questions I believe any thoughtful engineer should ask when evaluating a team. Some of these seemed to catch the interviewers off guard, which might have left a mixed impression. Still, the engineers were pleasant, and the overall experience was positive. The only downside is the lack of feedback — something that always makes it difficult to learn what truly went wrong. Sometimes, teams might already have an internal candidate or be interviewing for formality’s sake — though that may not be the case here, the absence of closure leaves room for guesswork.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Behavioral What is a complex project you worked on? What is your team composition and what is your role?
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Questions: 1. A few hot properties are fetched 10k times/sec from the database — what will you do to withstand load? 2. A report runs complex SQL queries and is straining the production database. 3. How do you provide secure communication between two messaging clients? 4. Your app server is throttling on CPU and memory — what will you do?
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      OOPS design of Remote Control
      Answer question

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      May 23, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at AppFolio in May 2025

      Interview

      The interview process was the most demanding I’ve encountered to date. It included four distinct stages—a non-technical screening, a technical discussion, a thought exercise, a system design session, and a total of three one-hour pair programming sessions. I invested a significant amount of time and effort, including rearranging my schedule to accommodate multiple interviews. Unfortunately, after completing all of these rounds, I was left without meaningful follow-up. The eventual response I received felt vague and unsubstantiated, which was particularly disappointing given the depth and rigor of the process. Being left in the dark after such a substantial commitment reflected poorly on the overall candidate experience.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Design a Payment System from the API perspective.
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      3 very stupid live coding challenges that didn't measure knowledge of the subject required for the job.
      1 Answer
      2
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      AppFolio response
      1y
      Thank you for taking the time to consider AppFolio and for sharing your experience with us. We value your feedback and will use this information to improve our candidate communication in the future.