Coupang Software Engineer interview experience

I went through an interview process that felt very similar to Amazon’s style—leadership principles were a major thread in the questions, and the tech portion leaned toward hard DSA problems where time complexity mattered.

The interviews themselves came with a lot of “think deeply” pressure: it wasn’t just about getting to an answer, it was about demonstrating how I reasoned through difficult cases and how I handled trade-offs in my approach. Even with that, what threw me off was how the process didn’t feel smooth from a logistics standpoint, and I didn’t get a clear follow-up after I