Coalition Software Engineer interview experience

After the recruiter screen, I had a technical screen scheduled about a week later, and that first technical part was a mix of behavioral and technical “tell me about” prompts—projects, hard problems, and what it was like to deal with them.

Then the session shifted into a data structures and algorithms coding challenge that was medium-to-hard, and the time window was tight—about 20 minutes. I kept wondering whether they expected me to land on a working solution inside that timeframe or whether the goal was really to outline a path with pseudocode. I spent time trying to structure the