Clever Software Engineer interview experience (2022)

Clever Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jan 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview process started in an unusual order: I talked to a CTO early, before anything else felt truly “formal.” It was a straightforward chat about expectations, but it still stood out to me that I was speaking with the CTO before my recruiter conversations were even fully wrapped up.

After that, I met with an internal recruiter and then went into a big architecture interview series. I got a product-relevant scenario tied to their engineering process and had to draw out the system design and discuss trade-offs, then there were additional structured interviews across values and cross-functional work. One session with a product manager focused on how I’d interfaced with business and non-engineering teammates and how I approach projects. There was also a longer technical exercise where I built functionality involving an uncommon data structure; I didn’t finish everything, but

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Clever Software Engineer interview experience

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