global consulting firm Software Engineer interview experience

The engineer asked me to describe my prior technical projects, then we quickly shifted into working through an algorithm implementation together. I felt like I had a decent grasp while setting things up, but the interview also had follow-up pressure where they were checking how I reacted when the problem evolved.

In that same overall shape, the round ended up being unforgiving: I answered a simple LeetCode-style task and then ran into a following-up question I couldn’t fully handle. I was told shortly after that I didn’t pass. The tough part wasn’t that the initial prompt was impossible—it