Brex Software Engineer interview experience

It also turned out the main interviewer who was supposed to supervise had cancelled, so I was left with only one interviewer. Before the interview, I was sent a project starter that didn’t compile, so I had to re-architect it to get it working with the Brex setup.

During the interview, I was asked to build a sample application. I coded through it with a pretty careful focus on practical concerns I’d expect as a Staff Engineer—things like state management, memoization, e2e automation and deflaking, and performance tuning for large lists. A big part was that I asked multiple times whether