Grafana Labs Software Engineer interview experience

I expected the engineers on the technical round to be actively involved, especially since the way they introduced themselves made it sound like they’d guide me through the problem.

During the coding interview, though, they barely spoke at all. They acted like supportive collaborators, but once the discussion started, they stayed quiet for the whole session. I worked through the problem and eventually shared a solution that wasn’t optimal because I missed key details at the beginning of the prompt, and I never got the kind of nudges or clarifying interaction that would have helped me