Headway (NY) Software Engineer interview experience

The people I spoke with were responsive, and my recruiter was quick to help with coordination, which made the process feel less chaotic.

The thing that threw me off was the way the rounds were executed once I got onsite. The interview guide didn’t really match what they ended up evaluating, and the system design round felt especially hard to navigate because the direction wasn’t clear. One example that stands out was that the “design” portion involved typing text only and required me to drive it, but there weren’t meaningful criteria to calibrate what “good” looked like. The coding screen