athenahealth Software Engineer interview experience

One coding task was practical—merging two sorted arrays—so it felt like real implementation work rather than just theoretical exercises. The same round also included a puzzle-style question, and I remember the interviewers checking how I approached data-structure thinking and design tradeoffs (including OOP-related concepts).

Then I moved to a manager round that was totally different in vibe: I was asked to solve a Sudoku. It wasn’t just about getting to an answer quickly; the conversation centered on how I worked through constraints and logic. The whole process felt average in difficulty,