Canonical Software Engineer interview experience

The first stage included a written interview plus a Python quiz and LeetCode-style questions, along with a mental acuity test. The second stage shifted into online interviews that mixed technical exercises/questions with background questions, which made it clear they expected both breadth and reasoning.

After that, I hit a set of technical interviews—three of them—and I was rejected after those. Even though the people I spoke with were friendly, the process overall was exhausting. The “hard” part wasn’t any one question so much as how many hurdles there were, and how the soft-skills