Chewy·Software Engineer

Chewy Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

Boston, MAPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process had a very hands-on, stack-specific feel, and it ended up being a frustrating mismatch.

After a first round with an engineer where I did a HackerRank on a simple 2D array problem, I moved into a longer set of rounds with four one-hour interviews. The behavioral round focused on my current job and classic “tell me about a time” prompts.

The technical pieces stayed very tied to testing and debugging rather than just describing concepts. I repeated coding in another HackerRank-style interview, then got a system design-style task where I had to outline database schemas and sketch API endpoints for a system idea. Finally, I did a debugging/testing round where the prompt included

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