Avalara Software Engineer interview experience

After that, there was a lab-style round where I had to sit in front of a laptop and work through a task assigned to me, before the process moved into HR discussion.

The in-person part felt like a real test of clarity under pressure. In my interview day, I ran into rounds where the back-and-forth was unusually tense: one senior engineer pushed back on my understanding of string operator behavior, and another interviewer seemed confused about callbacks and insisted on a different approach than the one I was trying to explain. Even the lunch moment didn’t feel like a reset; instead, it turned