Micro1 Software Engineer interview experience

The process felt very “assessment-like” rather than interactive in the human sense, with sections that tested whether I could reason clearly and communicate tradeoffs while writing and debugging code under time pressure.

I worked through live coding and debugging exercises, plus code optimization tasks and some API-related questions. The questions weren’t vague in the way some AI interviews are; they were focused on execution and clarity—how I approached the problem, how I reasoned about bugs, and how I would improve code efficiency.

Even though the technical parts were the most concrete