Chewy Software Engineer interview experience (2026)

Chewy Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Boston, MAPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter call that was genuinely helpful—he explained the role and also walked me through what the interview process would look like, which made the next steps feel a lot less vague.

From there, I went into a staff engineer round, followed by a hiring manager round, then two director-level interviews, and finally a system design interview.

In the first interview with the staff engineer, we talked through a problem I’d faced with a manager, then I got a coding task to solve live with a time-boxed LeetCode medium. I moved on after that. The hiring manager round felt more like an interactive conversation tied to my current work; it stayed to the details and how I thought about impact, and I left it feeling positive.

The director rounds leaned more behavioral, including a

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