Braze Software Engineer interview experience

After an initial algorithm interview, I was scheduled for multiple additional rounds rather than wrapping up quickly, and the debugging interview didn’t feel like a normal engineering debugging conversation either. Instead, a lot of the questioning came across as puzzle-style, even for senior-level expectations, and it created an atmosphere where it felt like the goal was to evaluate whether I’d “fit,” not to collaborate.

In the debugging portion and subsequent rounds, I noticed that interviewers didn’t provide helpful guidance even when I asked questions. They also seemed to set up