HackerRank Software Engineer interview experience

The first one leaned heavily on my background—internships and projects—and the interviewer asked a lot of questions that tied back to what I’d actually done. The second phone round was more focused on programming: I worked through a problem on the CodePair platform and, on top of that, they also asked system design questions.

This was definitely on the difficult end for me, mainly because it wasn’t just one kind of evaluation. I didn’t receive an offer, but what I took from it was that they were testing both depth in my experience and my ability to reason through technical problems under