Addepar Software Engineer interview experience

It began with a resume screen and a recruiter call, then I did a basic coding exercise. From there, I moved into an onsite-style day where I faced a bigger set of tasks—coding, debugging, and architecture questions—more representative of actual programming work than the kinds of interviews that only test trivia.

During the system design round, I ran into the kind of interview dynamic that can be hard to predict: the session focused on designing something like a Slack-scale system, and the interviewer wanted a particular, rehearsed direction rather than the way I wanted to structure it. I