Blend Software Engineer interview experience

It started with a short recruiter call focused on basics like fit, role expectations, compensation, motivation, and clarifying points on my background. Then I moved into a deeper leadership-focused interview with a hiring manager or senior engineering leader, where we talked about leadership style, team growth, conflict resolution, and how I’d handled scaling before.

From there, I had system and architecture design conversations where the emphasis was on high-level solutions, trade-offs, scaling concerns, and potential failure modes. I also went through behavioral rounds centered on people