Kraken Software Engineer interview experience

The estimate they gave me was about 3–4 hours, and there wasn’t a strict deadline, but the prompt was intentionally a bit ambiguous. I ended up leaning into that: I documented my assumptions clearly, wrote up what I didn’t finish within the timeframe when it came to it, and packaged everything in a detailed README. What stood out was how closely the work resembled what I’d actually do in the role, and how comfortable they made it feel to reason out an answer rather than hunt for a single “gotcha” requirement.

A week or so later, I had a technical discussion where I walked through the choices