Crowdstrike Software Engineer interview experience

The conversation was pretty standard—focused on past projects I’d led and how I approached work.

After that, they gave me a take-home assignment involving distributed computations, and it took around ten hours to complete. When I turned it in, I received positive feedback. But then I was told that because of timing, another candidate had already been offered the position and they were closing the role, which was hard to reconcile with how well things had seemed.

I asked about other openings, and it turned out the recruiters I’d been dealing with had limited visibility outside their own