Klaviyo Software Engineer interview experience

I started with a recruiter conversation with the usual behavioral questions and a bit of grounding in what I’d done before. That was followed by a pair programming session with a senior developer, and I remember it feeling like they were trying to see how I thought while actually coding, not just whether I could churn out an answer.

Next came a more “real life” coding assessment: building an API where a lot of the scaffolding and code already existed, and the work was about extending it correctly. There was also an algorithm round using a problem framed like something you might run into in