Applied Intuition Software Engineer interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ran into a technical coding problem about validating a configuration using several descriptors, including the possibility of nested types.

The task wasn’t just to write code—it required me to clarify a lot of assumptions about what “valid” meant before I could confidently implement the checks.

I had to ask the interviewer questions like whether it should confirm that every expected item was present, and how to interpret missing elements. Even after I got something working, I ended up dealing with errors and edge cases: how to handle missing items cleanly, and how to properly check when a field’s type was a list. I still felt like I hadn’t covered every aspect by the time the time limit ended, which weighed on me.

When I

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