Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Coinbase with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 49 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Coinbase overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Coinbase as a Software Engineer(Internship) according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
One on one interview: 40%
Drug test: 20%
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Codesignal assessment, recruiter phone to go over background and experience, then one technical interview which was more real-world based about transaction processing with 3 parts whole process took about 2-3 weeks
I applied online. I interviewed at Coinbase in Feb 2026
Interview
Lady I interviewed with was so dumb and hindered my ability to actually write out very easy code. Was honestly very frustrating because I knew how to do the problem
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Question 1
Medium leetcode about like accessing element in the middle of a list with hashmaps of some sort
Online assessment -> Recruiter call -> Final Tech Round (backend for me). I was given a transaction type of question that involved good knowledge about ones language. Had the choice to pick between infrastrcuture, backend, frontend, etc teams.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why coinbase? What do do hope to get out of this internship?