Anduril Software Engineer interview experience

The challenge wasn’t so much calculating numbers as figuring out how to think when the problem was underdefined.

They pushed me to articulate an approach, and it was clear they cared about my reasoning process—what I chose as the key physical factors and how I broke down the problem fast enough to make progress under ambiguity. It was hard in a very specific way: I had to show thinking quality more than I had to produce a “perfect” solution.

I didn’t end up with an offer. Leaving the interview, I felt like I’d demonstrated my approach, but the gap between what they wanted to see and what I