Harvey coding interview
Round 4 of 7 · 10 questions reported
- Length
- 60 min
- Format
- Live practical coding
- They grade
- Structure, edge cases and how you take hints; a follow-up changes a constraint
- AI use
- Candidates report freedom to use the tools and languages they know; confirm with your recruiter
- Heads-up
- Reported problems include finding every occurrence of a phrase in a long document and merging intervals. Interviewers run their own, sometimes hidden, tests, and recent loops expect bug-free code. ML roles get a Colab round on a small RAG pipeline instead.
Questions Harvey asks in this round 10
- Citation tagging over generated textAug 2026 · very often
- Mini spreadsheet with formulas and cycle detectionSep 2026 · often
- RAG notebook with retrieval and evaluationSep 2026 · sometimes
- In-memory file system with files and foldersAug 2026 · sometimes
- Database connection poolApr 2026 · once
- Embedding retrieval with cosine similarity
- Implement an LRU cache
- Live string editing with a mouse cursor
- Read-through and write-through cache adapter
- Versioned key-value vault with consistency check
About the Harvey coding round
What does Harvey ask in the coding round?
The most asked: Citation tagging over generated text, Mini spreadsheet with formulas and cycle detection and RAG notebook with retrieval and evaluation. 10 questions reported in all.
How long is the Harvey coding round?
About 60 minutes.
What is the Harvey coding round like?
Live practical coding. They grade: Structure, edge cases and how you take hints; a follow-up changes a constraint.
Can you use AI in the Harvey coding round?
Candidates report freedom to use the tools and languages they know; confirm with your recruiter.