Crowdstrike Software Engineer interview experience

The hiring manager round combined behavioral questions with designing a monitoring system. After that, I had a technical round with two engineers where one part involved a rate limiter.

The call included a kind of “points wall” setup where some details were hidden behind the interface, and I remember thinking it was an odd way to communicate the problem. Still, I pushed through the design work and ended up being offered the standard Engineer III package, around the mid-$250K range. I likely declined.

Looking back, what gave me confidence was that the process aligned around concrete systems