AlphaSense Software Engineer interview experience

The first part was a coding assessment with a setup that involved Spring, Java 8, and SQL, and it focused more on coding and basic concepts. After that, I had a second technical round that shifted toward architecture and system design.

There was also a director-level conversation that felt less about solving problems on the spot and more about how I came across—personality traits and communication skills were explicitly part of what they looked for.

I didn’t receive an offer, but the difficulty felt fairly balanced across fundamentals, then design thinking, then how I communicated under