Headway (NY) Software Engineer interview experience (2025)

Headway (NY) Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Feb 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews started with some fairly standard coding and background checks, and I moved through a few rounds that were clearly meant to test practical engineering judgment rather than obscure tricks.

The first technical rounds were light compared to what I expected from a bigger tech org, and one coding portion involved intervals and the other involved project experience discussion.

The onsite rounds included system design prompts, and the coding round had some concrete tooling expectations—FastAPI was specifically called out to be familiar with during the coding portion. The overall theme I felt was that culture fit mattered a lot, more than deep engineering focus, so a lot of the way the interviews played out was about how I connected with the team and how comfortable I seemed in

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Headway (NY) Software Engineer interview experience

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