Harness·Software Engineer

Harness Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Jose, CAPosted Nov 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop started with a hiring manager style screen and then moved into technical rounds that leaned heavily on coding.

The first technical step was effectively an online assessment with multiple questions in the mix: DSA questions alongside JavaScript-focused questions and some MCQs, with the difficulty described as medium and a bit complex on portions of the MCQs.

After the online stage, I progressed through additional interview rounds that included LeetCode-style DSA questions at an easy-to-moderate level. In that phase, the interviewer even dropped hints when I got stuck, which made it feel more like they wanted to see how I worked through the problem rather than only evaluating a perfect finish. At one

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