Coupa Software Inc Software Engineer interview experience

It started with design and coding-style evaluation, then moved into a technical flow where I had to discuss data-structure and algorithm thinking alongside coding depth.

What stood out was that the hiring-manager conversation leaned heavily technical and architectural. I was pulled into design work around a notification service, walking through low-level and high-level design, and then discussing design choices for a simple auction use case. They also pressed on reliability concerns and day-to-day processing concerns like resilience and downstream handling.

Overall the difficulty felt