Beli Software Engineer Online Assessment Interview Experience
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What is Beli For the newcomers, Beli is an app that allows you to rank restaurants and share your rankking with your friends. It also allows you to track for open reservations for bookmarked restau
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What is Beli For the newcomers, Beli is an app that allows you to rank restaurants and share your rankking with your friends. It also allows you to track for open reservations for bookmarked restaurants. Think of it like a snapchat for restaurants, but no ads and app is free to use. Beli has openings for SWE roles in NYC and it's a Series A company. ## The process First you have to take an OA in coderpad screen. No time limit, but you have to do the OA by yourself. You're tested on your Python, TypeScript, HTML/CSS fundamentals. 37 questions were asked, so quite a bit Questions are multiple choice, select all that apply or coding style. Coding questions were on the easier side and all test cases were provided. The editor doesn't let you add your own test cases unfortunately, but try to write readable code for the most part. I would say some of the HTML/CSS questions were lowkey trivia. For example, you're expected to know "what's the default style for a <p> element in HTML" when in practice, you'd actually google that. I luckily was able to advance to the
next round with a few questions wrong. You receive your scorecard after completion of the OA and I heard about the outcome via automated email 10-15 minutes later.
About This Question
This is a candidate experience report from a beli interview for a swe role during the oa round reported in 2026.
It covers the following topics: Sql .
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About Beli Interview Reports
This question was reported by a candidate who interviewed at Beli. LeakCode aggregates interview reports from 10+ sources, including 1Point3Acres, Glassdoor, LeetCode Discuss, Blind, Reddit, Indeed, and Nowcoder. Each report is translated where necessary, deduplicated against existing entries, and tagged by company, role, round type, and reporting date.
Use this question as one calibration data point, not a memorization target. Companies typically rotate their question pools every 2-4 months; the exact wording of a 2024 question may differ from what you encounter today. The underlying pattern, difficulty level, and follow-up depth at Beli are the higher-signal extractions to take from this report.
For broader preparation context, the Beli interview process typically includes a recruiter screen, one or two technical phone screens, and a 4-5 round on-site loop covering coding, system design (at L4+ levels), and behavioral. Reports tagged on LeakCode show the round-by-round distribution and typical difficulty calibration. To browse questions filtered by round type and seniority, use the company hub linked above.
How To Practice This Type of Question
Solve similar problems on LeetCode under timed conditions (25-35 minutes per medium difficulty). The goal is pattern recognition: recognize the underlying technique (sliding window, two-pointer, BFS, memoized recursion, etc.) within 60-90 seconds of reading. Strong candidates verbalize their hypothesis out loud before coding, then iterate based on feedback. Weak candidates dive into implementation immediately, lose time on the wrong approach, and run out of time for follow-ups.
Companies update their question pools every 2-4 months. The exact wording of any given question may have been retired by the time you interview. Focus your prep on the pattern, not the specific problem. The patterns that appear in Beli reports consistently are the ones worth investing in; one-off niche problems are not.
During Your Beli Round
Apply the standard interview round template: clarify requirements (2-3 minutes), state your approach out loud and confirm direction with the interviewer (3-5 minutes), code with narration (15-25 minutes), test with concrete examples including edge cases (5 minutes), discuss optimization or trade-offs if time permits (5 minutes). This template is universally accepted across FAANG and adjacent companies; deviating from it produces weaker interviewer feedback signal.
The single most predictive failure mode in Beli reports tagged "no hire": not asking clarifying questions. Interviewers are explicitly trained to weight this. Strong candidates ask 3-5 clarifying questions even on problems that look obvious; weak candidates dive into code immediately. The clarifying-question check is often the first signal recorded in the interviewer's written notes.