Castlight·Software Engineer

Castlight Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Medium

Positive

IndiaPosted Mar 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the recruiter reached out, I ended up going through a fairly technical process that felt geared toward a full-stack role.

I had medium-level DSA questions, and then the harder part was system design where the conversation went beyond surface-level diagrams into deeper design decisions and REST API thinking. I also got questions tied to what I had done previously—things like frameworks, specifically Spring and Spring Boot, plus Angular.

The overall vibe was practical: they weren’t just checking buzzwords, they wanted me to connect the interview questions back to how I’d actually built things. The difficulty landed in the medium range, and the process felt structured around coding + design + the web/app stack I’d

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