Crypto.com Software Engineer interview experience

The process took about one to two months and ended up feeling structured at first: an HR screen, then a take-home coding assessment, followed by technical conversations with team members, and finally a culture-fit interview with a senior executive.

What threw me off was that the technical rounds didn’t seem to heavily test crypto knowledge, yet my final rejection was explicitly tied to needing more crypto experience. After that long chain of steps—including the last round being positioned as purely cultural fit—I didn’t really understand why the earlier stages didn’t surface the gap.

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