Clipboard·Software Engineer

Clipboard Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Jun 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step started before any real conversation: to even apply, I wrote a small script in JavaScript to query their API, sort and filter data, and produce a report.

It was already a bit awkward because the API itself had paging issues, so I had to work around it to make the exercise work at all. That felt like a warning sign, but I still continued.

Next, I moved into live coding where the reviewer basically asked me to adjust the script while I was on the spot. After that, there was a take-home code project that felt like a third separate task—this time I was given a partially built web app and asked to complete features. The expectations were vague, including stuff they framed as “frontend” work even though I had to make API and database changes to

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