Airwallex Software Engineer interview experience

Before the end, I’d done live coding, system design, and behavioral conversations with three different interviewers, and they all gave me a positive feeling. The recruiter and early rounds felt like they were building a picture of my fit.

Then I met the CTO and it completely flipped. He asked mostly the same kinds of questions that I’d already covered in the earlier behavioral round, but somehow concluded that I wasn’t a good fit. What threw me off most was that he also went very low-level, like how I would model the database, even though the overall conversation had been framed like a