AlphaSense Software Engineer interview experience

I ran into situations where key parts of the conversation didn’t land because of distractions during the interview. One interviewer had cricket match commentary playing in the background, and I could tell that the interviewer was saying something that I partially caught—like a “my posts” reference that sounded like “post”—and the discussion drifted from there.

The system design round was even more confusing. The prompt material didn’t feel carefully prepared; it seemed like copied text with unclear language, and the terminology in the diagram didn’t match the terms used in the question. I