Condé Nast Software Engineer interview experience

They emphasized that the team operates that way and described an “open collaboration” style where people take on a broad range of responsibilities.

From there I was given a long tech test where I had to build something tied to a site and an API and push it into their private Git repo. It took me several hours and honestly felt dissuading, like it was more time-consuming than it needed to be. Then the next round involved reviewing my Git commit messages and the timing closely—so they weren’t just checking the result, they wanted to hear my reasoning for how I coded it and what I would do