Autodesk Software Engineer interview experience

In the coding portion, I began with a straightforward problem, but the expectations kept drifting during the interview. Even after I produced a working solution, the interviewer kept changing the problem and pushing toward more abstract architecture improvements without clearly stating what the evaluation criteria actually were. It felt like there was a particular “correct” end state in mind rather than an open discussion of different valid engineering tradeoffs.

Later, I encountered a similar shift in tone in a different sequence of stages. Early conversations felt welcoming and even