Chegg Software Engineer interview experience

I had two technical interviews, and the second one leaned into system design. After that, I met with HR and eventually got a recommendation stage involving managers. Overall the difficulty felt average, but the experience was tense enough that it didn’t feel smooth or celebratory; it was more like being put through the expected mold.

What stuck with me was how narrow the focus was compared to how I’d expected the process to evaluate real software work. During the panel there was a senior interviewer who mostly stayed quiet, while another interviewer drove the questions. The questions were