Chargebee Software Engineer interview experience

The process was supposed to be five rounds, but by the time I reached the third, I got rejected. The rounds themselves weren’t cleanly separated by topic either—coding, algorithms, and technical questions showed up across multiple stages.

What threw me off was the way questions were handled when it felt like the interviewer expected a specific optimal path, almost like they’d already seen a “correct” approach somewhere and were judging against that. When I tried to explain my reasoning, there were moments where I had to fill in gaps midstream—like having to walk through how backtracking