Hopper Software Engineer interview experience

I passed quickly past the early part, which meant I moved on to a more live developer-led technical screen where the question was straightforward at first—I even got the initial, naive solution down in under ten minutes.

Then the round shifted. I struggled to understand what optimization they actually wanted, and the interviewer didn’t give much guidance even after I asked clarifying questions. I ended up explaining my solution verbally because time was running out and we never really reached the optimized version they seemed to be pushing for.

Because I didn’t make it further, the overall