Motorola Solutions Software Engineer interview experience

I got questions about the event loop and hoisting, and then they moved me into a coding exercise in JavaScript. The task wasn’t just about getting something to run—it pushed me to use common array functions.

I had to work with things like reduce, sort, find, map, and filter, including sorting strings and numbers. That combination made it feel like a real evaluation of whether I could write clean logic quickly using the language features, not just recall definitions.

I wasn’t selected in the end. Even though I walked away knowing what I struggled with, the technical depth of the exercise was