Clipboard Software Engineer interview experience

I had a PR-related coding challenge with strict time boxes—enough context to start but not enough time to fully reason through everything once the scenario and documentation were accounted for. The work simulated a “Friday” exit scenario, and I kept losing minutes simply reading and reconstructing the problem before I could even get to implementing.

After submitting, I received feedback from the platform, but it was hard to trust the quality of the review because the notes didn’t feel specific enough. In one instance, the feedback didn’t match what I had actually done, and in another, my