AAkunaCapital·Software Engineer

AkunaCapital Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Jan 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with recruiter outreach and then quickly moved to a take-home style coding test.

The assignment was centered on order book behavior, and I submitted it through their platform. Almost immediately afterward, my submission was rejected.

What surprised me wasn’t just the reject, it was how much the feedback and mechanics depended on the exact environment. I ended up feeling that the test wasn’t really about fancy techniques—it was more about writing plain code against their hidden expectations, using the standard library rather than anything clever. I also ran into a similar theme in the way the platform handled edge cases: tiny formatting details could fail hidden tests,

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