First American Financial Software Engineer interview experience

I asked clarifying questions while reading it through, but the interviewer told me they were changing the questions and that I needed to read and understand it well enough to explain my approach to them. I left that feeling confused about what exactly they were trying to measure, because it seemed like even they weren’t locked into the prompt.

Later, the process ended up feeling exhausting in a different way. I had already gone through multiple rounds—DSA and real-world problem-solving plus a detailed system design discussion—and I received positive feedback after each step. Still, the final