Coupa Software Inc Software Engineer interview experience

I went through a total of 9 interviews, with multiple panels along the way, and each round was high-stakes in the sense that it could stop me from continuing. System design came up, but what threw me off was how open-ended the questions could be—there were multiple reasonable ways to design a system—yet the discussion felt like it leaned toward one specific “answer shape” instead of valuing the thinking process.

After I cleared the technical rounds, the rest of the path shifted toward meeting engineering leadership. I ended up having to speak with several heads of engineering as part of