Allstate Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I had a virtual interview where the recruiter-to-engineer flow moved through a broad stack of topics quickly: I covered a couple of basic Java questions, then several Spring Boot questions.

The conversation shifted into deployment and hosting—how the product runs in a real environment in my previous work—and then it moved to Docker. I couldn’t fully answer those Docker questions from memory, and toward the end the interviewer turned to system design. I was asked multiple system design prompts along with what tech stack I would choose, and the last stretch didn’t go as smoothly as