Addepar Software Engineer interview experience

The first technical stage was framed like a real-world style prompt—something meant to mirror a day-to-day problem—but it still felt like trying to interpret requirements while using the platform itself. Even when I could see a path to the solution, the experience was often slower than expected because so much time went into figuring out exactly what the interviewer meant and how the environment expected the code to be structured.

Most of the rounds followed a familiar pattern: a coding challenge where I had to debug against test cases, then additional technical sessions that pushed me to