Indeed Software Engineer interview experience

I ended up in a long ~4-hour interview that mixed programming exercises with whiteboard work, including a deeper technical dive and then a code review. The pace was steady but demanding—there wasn’t much room to regroup, and I felt the bar was high.

Later, I ran through a virtual onsite that again centered on multiple rounds with hands-on coding, including a Hackerrank-style test paired with additional code review. By the time I got through the full set of rounds, it was obvious they weren’t only judging whether I could write code, but whether I could reason through it and respond under