AkunaCapital Software Engineer interview experience

The test mixed a bunch of theory questions with a genuinely complex coding problem that had an 80-minute limit, which made it feel less like “solve a single prompt” and more like a longer timed engineering exercise.

When I moved into live interviews, the questions stayed C++/systems oriented and were framed around fundamental depth. One phone screen in particular centered on a C++ technical question involving multi-threading, and the interviewer did seem helpful while I talked through what I was doing. After that, the later steps went toward more structured technical evaluation, and I