Freshworks·Software Engineer

Freshworks Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

IndiaPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a longer sequence where I cleared multiple stages, and then the process fell apart late.

Early on, I made it past a coding round, then a design round, and even a bar-riser-style round that combined coding plus design. I stayed confident through those clears.

The last step was a hiring manager round. I didn’t clear it because the hiring manager felt I wasn’t aligned with a narrower infrastructure-provisioning focus; my background seemed to point more toward product development and backend work. That decision didn’t just end things immediately—I got passed to a different team, which scheduled a final round with a director.

That final round was the part that really drained me. I

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