Headway (NY) Software Engineer interview experience

The coding portion itself felt manageable, and the interviewer and process were generally friendly. The one thing that threw me off was how the details of the setup mattered—my experience with a specific date/time library wasn’t great, and I ended up botching my approach.

I later got concerned about how the onsite would work, especially because one round required drawing and explaining architecture from projects I’d led in detail, with diagrams expected in real time. That part confused me, not because system design wasn’t relevant, but because it felt like it overlapped with a separate