Brex·Software Engineer

Brex Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Jan 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first step was a problem-solving task on CodeSignal with a 70-minute time window.

I chose to be straightforward and didn’t look up answers or algorithms online; I just worked through it based on what I knew.

The issue was that the problems felt LeetCode-inspired in a way that didn’t reflect lifetime experience so much as whether I could quickly recognize patterns or recall solutions from memory. Even when I tried to be honest, it felt like the assessment was measuring something narrower than I expected.

I didn’t make it through after that initial stage. The outcome was a rejection, and the biggest takeaway was how quickly the task nudged the process toward memorization

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