Motive Backend Engineer interview experience

The sequence kept escalating: I had real-world implementation where I had to write an API, and then I reached system design—which, for me, didn’t go well. After that, there were more coding rounds in a similar LeetCode style, and the process wrapped with a Topgrading/behavioral round with the engineering manager.

The difficulty felt all over the place, but it was definitely demanding enough that the whole timeline stretched toward close to two months. In that time, I also noticed some inconsistency in what would happen—though I was told there would be a system design interview, it didn’t