Blend Software Engineer interview experience

First, I did a practical technical exercise with an interviewer who was friendly and didn’t try to make anything unnecessarily tricky. After that, I went into the final round as a near full-day block on Zoom with a fairly clear itinerary.

The day included multiple parts: behavioral discussion about things like engineering org and working with people, then a practical problem, followed by a puzzle-style technical question that still felt semi-practical. Later I got into systems architecture and design. What surprised me was how well the whole thing was organized—there was a sense they were