Squarespace

The intern loop is a take-home assessment, a technical interview, and a soft-skills interview; the new-grad loop is a take-home assessment followed by three technical interviews. All stages run virtually over phone or Google Hangouts, and the recruiter stays as the candidate's contact across the process. The loops are short by tech-recruiting standards: two virtual rounds plus a take-home for interns, four contacts plus a take-home for new grads, with no on-site travel to plan around when scheduling against parallel applications.

Squarespace runs two distinct early-career tracks, both described on the firm's early career page:

• Summer internship: 12 weeks, June to August, 100% paid for every team, 40 hours per week. Interns are paired with an Intern Lead, work on shipped projects (past examples cited by the firm include the 404 page, TLD recommendations and a PayPal-for-nonprofits integration), and the firm states explicitly that off-cycle internships are not offered ("our internship program is only during the summer").
• New grad software engineer: full-time salaried, hired into a discipline (Frontend, Backend, etc.) with specific team placement set near the start date. Start dates are offered "one per month" rather than a single cohort intake, giving candidates more flexibility on graduation timing than a fixed September window.

The two tracks are the only published early-career pipelines; locations across both are New York City (HQ), Dublin, Portugal, and Remote.

Three things are unusual at the early-career stage: every intern across every team is paid at 100% (engineering and non-technical alike, not just SWE interns); new-grad start dates run monthly rather than as one September cohort; and project examples the firm cites – the 404 page, TLD recommendations, a PayPal integration supporting nonprofits – sit on the live customer surface rather than being scoped as throwaway intern projects. For a candidate choosing between an NYC tech employer with a single product surface and a larger Bay-Area platform with rotational programs, the trade-off is concentration on one shipping product against the breadth of multi-business-line rotations elsewhere.