Mindtickle Backend Engineer interview experience

I was also told there would be an HR stage as part of the full set.

In the low-level design portion, I spent time implementing something that required careful thinking under a time limit—more like building and discussing the solution than writing something quickly from memory. Then the high-level design discussion focused on structuring systems and explaining the tradeoffs behind a design.

The overall difficulty felt high enough that I didn’t clear every stage. I did get far into the early rounds and ended up being rejected after a few of them. The biggest impression for me was that they