Deliveroo Software Engineer interview experience

After that came a design round and then a behavioral/STAR round. It was all scheduled with a coordinator and felt organized on the surface, but the deeper pattern was that the process was rigid and didn’t leave much room for exploration.

In the live parts, interviewers seemed to push toward fixed answers, even in the parts where logic should be open-ended. The design discussion was especially hard to navigate because it didn’t feel like a normal trade-off conversation; it felt like the interviewer wanted to land on specific negatives quickly. I remember being asked to design something