Glassdoor·Software Engineer

Glassdoor Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a long, sometimes misaligned sequence of rounds that felt difficult and frustrating, stretching over a couple of weeks (and, in one case, involving a mismatch between stated scope and actual questions).

Round 1: Recruiter/intro — early screens that set expectations for the role.
Technical rounds (multiple) — several interviews emphasized topics that didn’t clearly map to what I was told I’d work on; questions were vague and pushed me to reason through specific scenarios.
Deep-dive technical discussion — I was asked about database splitting and concurrency/multithreading/IO rather than the area the recruiter said was primary.
No-code or limited coding moment — in one interview I was surprised not to be asked to write code, despite the technical nature of the

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