Bolt Software Engineer interview experience

The timeline spanned weeks, and the whole experience started out with the kind of calm, guided interaction that made me feel like the interviewers were there to collaborate rather than corner me.

In the coding rounds, I ran into algorithmic problems that required me to reason about complexity and move beyond a brute-force approach. One live coding challenge involved finding an anagram’s starting index inside a larger string, where I first came up with a straightforward solution and then had to improve it with the right complexity. Another problem asked for a contiguous subarray that sums to