Backbase Software Engineer interview experience

They asked me to build an application with a lot of requirements, and I didn’t even get a meeting to clarify anything—after a recruiter call, I went straight into the coding exercise.

I ended up delivering a working application, and it was functioning fine. Still, according to them, it wasn’t senior-level worth it. That was the part that felt hard to reconcile, since the whole process implied I should spend enough effort to produce something substantial.

I didn’t receive an offer. The final feeling was resentment toward the expectation mismatch—asking for something that resembles real work,