Coupang Software Engineer interview experience

The early rounds were mostly coding, plus system design and behavioral-style questions that tried to map back to how I worked and what I’d built before. A theme that stood out to me was how much the conversation revolved around their market and domain focus, and while that made the process feel more targeted, it also meant I spent more time discussing context than I expected.

When I got to the later stage, the structure felt like a full loop with multiple interviews scheduled back-to-back. I had a mix of coding rounds and design-focused prompts. One round involved designing a scheduler job,