Kraken Software Engineer interview experience

The recruiter’s initial conversation was friendly and engaging, centered on my background, motivations, and what I wanted from the role.

After that, I completed a take-home task that was relevant to the position. Then I had a discussion round with a senior engineer where I walked through my approach—my design choices, the trade-offs I made, and the reasoning behind the solution. The questions were more about how I thought than about judging the code line-by-line.

The later technical interview went broader, covering system design and algorithms alongside scenarios tied to the kind of real