IXL Learning Software Engineer interview experience

After brief introductions, I was given a genuinely difficult technical problem tied to something more real than typical interview-only data structures. I struggled to get all the way there on time, but my interviewer kept offering hints and stayed patient. When he had to step away for a meeting, he still made it possible for me to finish the problem afterward under an honor-code expectation.

Then the onsite showed how much weight they put on both depth and communication. I had five interviews total, with four technical sessions and one lunch meeting. The first technical segment was a warmup,