ClickUp·Software Engineer

ClickUp Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started poorly on the human side.

I had an initial recruiter call that didn’t feel welcoming and left me demotivated, like the conversation wasn’t really wanted. After that, the process didn’t do much to recover that first impression.

When I got to the interview loop, the main frustration was the amount of work they asked for relative to how much it felt tied to my “fit.” There was pre-work that felt excessive, and it didn’t match the effort-to-signal ratio I’m used to seeing. During the live coding portion, the coding task itself wasn’t wildly complex, but the bar for being “optimal” threw me off—especially when I made a

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