CodeClouds Software Engineer interview experience

They asked me to write code that could connect to a SQL database using PHP, which made it very hands-on right away.

They also asked concept questions like how caching works and what a session is. Then they had me write a simple loop that would display values from the database, so the conversation stayed tied to practical implementation.

The round was difficult enough to be meaningful but still clearly within the expected domain. I ended up receiving an offer, and the experience felt like they were evaluating the ability to build and reason about typical server-side tasks, not just memorize