AAkunaCapital·Software Engineer

AkunaCapital Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Aug 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My later-stage process landed on a final on-site that felt pretty intense and structured.

It started with a timed round where I had to build a battleship AI, with the same time window used for both Python and C++ developers. After that group challenge, I moved into individual technical interviews in my applied language. The first question was coding an elevator state machine, and the second leaned into data structures with a trie.

What stood out was the way the on-site blended a single timed build with focused, targeted follow-ups right after. It felt like they were checking both whether I could work under a stopwatch and whether my fundamentals were solid when the questions got

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