Dayforce Software Engineer interview experience

I started with a recruiter and then had a first technical interview where I worked through SQL queries plus an algorithm question. In the next technical conversation, the difficulty ramped further into very in-depth questions, including algorithm reasoning with recursion and tree structures, and questions about the expected output of code that involved Windows Forms concepts. I also got tested on core database ideas like how SQL concepts fit together, and on top of that there were questions touching multithreading.

In the later technical round(s), the atmosphere felt brutal in the sense that