Appfolio Cloud Engineer interview experience

I applied online and a recruiter scheduled a technical telephonic interview without much initial discussion about the role. The coding session was on a video platform and lasted about an hour, but there wasn’t actually a coding question—at least not one that matched what I expected for a developer role.

What happened next made everything click: it turned out the position was pure operations, not software development. That mismatch alone threw me off, and by the end of the day I was rejected.

Looking back, the most memorable part wasn’t the difficulty—it was realizing mid-process that my