Coupang Software Engineer interview experience

I was told the evaluation was broken into clear areas—coding, behavior, system design, and bar-raiser—but the reality felt more blended, with not enough time to fully address any one topic. One interview run dragged into a compressed session where I had to juggle multiple coding problems quickly, and I also lost time during the system design discussion when the interviewer arrived late.

Later, I had a day where interviews were effectively stacked in the morning and afternoon. The interviewers would bring rough prompts with vague edges, and I had to straighten out the missing details on the