Headway (NY) Software Engineer interview experience

The vibe during scheduling and feedback felt responsive, but the actual evaluation moments were oddly misaligned with what I expected. The onsite design segment, in particular, didn’t match what I’d consider a classic system design round—there were constraints that made it hard to know what direction they were looking for, and I spent more time guessing than building.

The rest of the onsite still had the usual structure—coding and system design alongside behavioral—but I struggled to get traction where the prompts were vague. One technical depth-style exercise also caught me off guard