DigitalOcean·Software Engineer

DigitalOcean Software Engineer interview experience

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Easy

Negative

IndiaPosted Jun 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a hiring-manager round focused on my experience, including conflict and planning—how I handle situations when priorities clash.

After that came a tech round that felt strangely misaligned with what the discussion was trying to assess. I got basic JavaScript questions plus a couple of very simple coding tasks that wrapped up quickly.

What stood out was the interviewer’s confidence around async/await and what they claimed was “possible” or “not possible” without it. The conversation drifted into debating promises and ordering behavior, and I ended up contradicting several of their points as the scenario got more detailed, including discussion around alternatives like preserving order with indexing and broader concepts

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