Chewy·Software Engineer

Chewy Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Oct 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews had the worst part of both worlds: some were technically reasonable, but the overall experience felt chaotic and not well run.

I ended up doing multiple interviewers with inconsistent styles—some felt conversational, while others were hard to engage with in the middle of coding and debugging. In one coding interview, the interviewer stayed quiet and didn’t really collaborate, while another person observed awkwardly.

During the debugging/problem-solving parts, I struggled more because the setup didn’t support real debugging in a meaningful way. There were moments where the interviewer was overly hands-on, interrupting the flow by repeatedly adding code, redirecting me, and breaking my concentration. In another

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