ASM Software Engineer interview experience

The overall difficulty felt difficult, and what really got to me was the way the interview probed unfamiliar areas. I told them I wasn’t comfortable with certain types of manipulation problems, but the interviewer kept steering toward the same topic anyway.

Even after I explained my uncertainty, they continued and eventually had me work through a bit manipulation problem. It didn’t feel like they were testing how I’d approach a known gap or scaffold from experience—it felt more like they were hunting for weaknesses in my knowledge framework even when I was upfront about what I didn’t