Arm Software Engineer interview experience

After submitting those, I waited before moving to a longer Zoom interview that ran close to two hours.

That Zoom stage leaned hard into technical depth. It also left me feeling watched and evaluated in a way that raised the pressure, especially when I struggled to adapt my approach while someone observed me coding. There were moments where the questions felt more like tests of edge-case mechanics than of broad problem-solving, and I froze more than I wanted to. The next day I could solve it quickly, which made the live experience feel even more frustrating.

In the end, I didn’t get the