AkunaCapital Software Engineer interview experience

I was given 72 hours to complete it, and I spent a long time on it—about 13 hours—because I wanted to be sure it wasn’t just passing by luck.

In the end, I passed nearly all the test cases quickly enough at first, and I spent additional time profiling to isolate the slow part on the remaining failing case. The bottleneck turned out to be reading from stdin under a 2-second interval, which didn’t feel like it was truly reflecting performance of the core matching/processing logic. It was the kind of failure mode that made it feel like the evaluation environment and the expected input behavior