DigitalOcean Software Engineer interview experience

The best part was that each round had a distinct focus, so it didn’t all blur together: one interview emphasized problem solving and debugging, another leaned into architecture and core computer science fundamentals, and another combined data structures with Linux fundamentals. The final technical session was a systems design conversation.

There wasn’t much of a “coding contest” vibe. Only one round leaned into coding, while the majority of the loop was about systems-level reasoning and explaining how I’d think through design decisions. I had the sense the interviewers were trying to map my