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Box Software Engineer interview experience

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My interview blended a bit of unexpected theory with practical system thinking.

I was asked about exploding and vanishing gradients in neural networks, including how someone would track those issues. It threw me off a little because it wasn’t the most typical “software engineer” opening, but the interviewer was probing for my conceptual understanding.

Then I moved into a system design problem about improving search result rankings using keyword indexing. After that, the coding task was more hands-on and specific: I had to traverse a file system starting from a given root path using particular functions, and then rank files based on similarity to a query prompt. Overall,

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