Covermymeds Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I went into a half-day interview that had a mix of conversations about my career and programming with about a dozen people. It still felt fairly standard in format, but the biggest issue was what I was told versus what actually happened.

The recruiter had told me there wouldn’t be puzzles, so I showed up expecting real business logic and a more straightforward pairing situation. Instead, I was brought into an opaque, uncommented block of puzzle-like code—roughly a hundred lines—and I had to work through it. I didn’t get told explicitly that this was the real pairing exercise, and