Intercom Systems Engineer interview experience

It came with detailed “guidelines” and expected me to spend a chunk of my time building something production-ready, including unit test cases. I didn’t love the idea of sending in a big chunk of code without an interviewer there to understand the intent, but I put it together with a focus on production standards and automated tests.

The interview flow then continued with a phone stage that included live coding on algorithmic questions and a separate culture contribution call. For the live coding, I felt like the interviewer was steering me toward design choices that would make the solution