Bandwidth Software Engineer interview experience

Instead of email back-and-forth, the recruiter told me I’d be put into a “loop,” and I ended up doing it as a single connected session that ran about three hours.

The loop started with a segment that included behavioral questions plus two very simple coding questions, with two interviewers on that part. Then I had another stretch that mixed more behavioral discussion with something described as a bit tricky, followed by a longer section focused on system design plus behavioral questions again. There was also a hiring manager slot at the end.

The main surprise was a technical hiccup near the