Avalara·Software Engineer

Avalara Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

IndiaPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My coding interview started with a REST API task—calling an endpoint, processing the results, and returning the final output.

I understood the intent, but I asked a few clarifying questions to make sure I was matching what the interviewer wanted.

The interviewer pushed back on that and indicated I shouldn’t ask questions, then the interaction immediately felt off. His camera went off and I could hear background noise, and when I tried to explain my approach to get some validation, there was no response. He reappeared after a long stretch to say the code needed to be more modular, and then he stepped away again.

I finished the solution and made sure the tests passed. I even asked about optimizing latency with

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