Etsy·Software Engineer

Etsy Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Ciudad de MexicoPosted Sep 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had an interview path that was long enough to spike my anxiety, mostly because the structure didn’t feel transparent.

One phase started with a recruiter call and then moved into multiple HR/manager and technical touchpoints, including a lengthy onsite session with several people.

The onsite block was the hardest part emotionally. I had to debug an app that the interviewer didn’t seem to have much familiarity with, which made it difficult to ask good questions about how to approach debugging. Even though I worked through it, the experience felt draining because there was a lot of uncertainty about what was being evaluated.

What made it worse was the lack of feedback. Even after completing multiple

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