Braze·Software Engineer

Braze Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted May 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a longer technical assessment, and from there it turned into a half-day series of interviews that blended coding, design, and behavior.

The debugging segment really stuck with me. I downloaded a zip that contained a program implementing a caesar cipher and then had to debug failing unit tests. The codebase felt cryptic and the instructions didn’t make it easy to tell what was truly expected; I wasn’t allowed to meaningfully refactor during the first portion, and the constraints meant I spent a lot of time hunting for the specific failure the interviewer cared about. Only after roughly thirty minutes did the second phase loosen up into more general refactoring.

After that, I went into a system design round that felt fairly

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