Compass Software Engineer interview experience

I ended up in a seven-round sequence that included a Karat screening, two coding rounds, a system design, a deeper dive tied to a prior project, a hiring manager conversation, and an HR round. There wasn’t a strict order; I remember it feeling strange that the HR conversation could happen before all the technical pieces were complete.

Technically, the questions leaned heavily on coding and LeetCode-style problem solving rather than anything that mapped cleanly to the day-to-day work. At times it also felt like the interviewers weren’t coordinated, and even when the hiring manager said I’d be