HackerRank Software Engineer interview experience

It was a short test with two coding questions, and both felt tied to real-world style implementation rather than abstract trivia. I finished it, and then it went quiet—I was left waiting without much feedback while they figured out the rest of the process.

A little later, I moved into a live interview round on the platform where the questions were basically LeetCode-style. The coding task itself wasn’t overly difficult, but I could feel I was slightly rusty with that exact style of problem. The interview felt pleasant overall, though, and I left thinking my main risk was just not being as