Intuit Software Engineer interview experience

The question involved designing a rate limiter using a token bucket approach. I explained my solution as I went, but the interviewer seemed unfamiliar with that specific direction and kept pushing me toward the “regular” version after I’d already implemented something I believed was correct.

That ate into the time I had left, and I still managed to implement the basic alternative. I made a conversion mistake when translating units and, without enough time and without internet access, I couldn’t fix it before submitting an incorrect result. After that coding part, they asked about my AI