Audible Software Engineer interview experience

My experience there didn’t match what I expected: the interviewer wasn’t very clear about the question and how they were thinking about it, and I felt like my performance was heavily impacted by that communication gap. Even though I tried to work through it, it was hard to tell whether I was solving the intended problem.

Separately, I also ran into a much more brutal assessment stage in a different round of the process. That timed HackerRank test came with two coding questions and verbal descriptions of the solution flow. I was given a chance to practice a few problems, but the practice