Deliveroo Software Engineer interview experience

I had a recruiter chat and then was pulled into a Karat interview delivered as a timed video session where I had to pick topics from a set and answer quickly at the start, then spend most of the time on coding exercises. I found the format impersonal: it was more like “produce a working solution” than a collaborative coding conversation, and the structure didn’t really adapt to role or experience.

Across the run, the process felt inconsistent in ways that hurt my confidence. I remember being told they wouldn’t provide examples of how things worked, and later hearing nothing even after I