Benchling Software Engineer interview experience

The biggest practical thing I remember was how much it mattered to carefully read the candidate packet they provided, because it basically set the expectation for the type of coding problem and the data example used during the session.

Beyond that, the format was straightforward: you work through the coding problem live in the environment they set up. I didn’t end up getting an offer, but the experience didn’t feel chaotic—more like it was testing whether I could follow details and adapt quickly to the prompt as written. If I’d missed that packet-reading step, I think I would have struggled