just finished the replit new grad loop so sharing everything while it's fresh. first: this is NOT a pure leetcode grind company. they care more about whether you can build things and think through product/systems tradeoffs than whether you can solve a hard dp problem in 20 minutes.
my process (applied through linkedin, heard back in ~10 days):
recruiter screen - 30 min, pretty casual. basic background, why replit, and they asked me to describe a project i built end to end. not a trick question, just want to know you actually ship things.
async coding challenge - they gave me 72 hours but it was probably 4-5 hours of actual work. build something using the replit platform (or adjacent tools). they want to see real code not theory. pushed to a repl, submitted a link.
technical phone screen - 45 min with an engineer. one coding problem (medium difficulty, nothing wild), plus 15-20 min talking through my take-home. questions were mostly: why did you make this choice, what would you do differently, how does this scale.
virtual onsite - 4 rounds: system design (collaborative, they were helping not just grilling), another coding round, a values/culture round, and a hiring manager conversation.
for prep: honestly the thing that helped most was building a few small apps with replit itself. shows you get the product. leetcode mediums are fine, don't bother with hards. read through the replit blog and engineering posts, they talk a lot about how they think about the dev experience.
leveling for new grads seems to land at L3/L4 depending on internship experience. comp i was offered was around $140k base + equity, remote-eligible. that's from my single data point so take it loosely.
anyone else went through this recently? curious if the take-home has changed at all.