Clipboard Software Engineer interview experience

The earlier call had some odd questions meant to probe things like critical thinking, but the real “test” ended up being a longer case study that required many hours. There was no sense of debate or clarification—just go work, submit, and wait.

In the coding stage, I worked through the assignment expecting my logic to match the prompt, but the requirements felt like they depended on very specific assumptions that weren’t clearly communicated. Even when I thought my solution worked and passed what it was supposed to, I still got rejected without detailed feedback, which made it hard to tell