MongoDB Software Engineer interview experience

It began with a recruiter call, then I had a technical interview through Karat using a pair-coding setup with a plain text editor rather than an IDE. The testing was leetcode-style, and the questions were framed as easy to medium difficulty, but the pressure in the format made it harder than I expected.

After that, the process moved toward a rejection without any extended onsite exploration. I remember doing my best under time pressure and still feeling like the coding rounds didn’t go well enough to progress. Even when the questions were described as manageable, I didn’t have the confidence