Anduril Software Engineer interview experience

The interviewer briefly walked through my background and then got into code comprehension—analyzing lines of code and explaining what they were doing, with a spotlight on pointers, references, lambdas, and move semantics.

The second half was a programming problem that needed an efficient graph approach. I ended up using a depth-first search to identify node clusters, and it was the kind of task where the details of the traversal mattered. The next step in the process felt like a more “full loop” day: beyond pure coding, I also had to talk through why Anduril and engage in systems thinking,