DraftKings Software Engineer interview experience

After a short phone interview, where the recruiter explained what the team did and asked a bit about my background, I expected to be sent a coding assessment next. The coding portion didn’t go well for me, and I was rejected quickly.

Later, I also ran into a similar kind of early stop. I had an HR recruiter phone call first, followed by an online coding interview, but I couldn’t get past it because the HackerRank setup used languages I wasn’t comfortable with. Even though I understood the general type of problem they were getting at, the tooling mismatch made it harder to demonstrate what I