N26 Software Engineer interview experience

After that came a technical discussion that blended into a system design round, and then a cultural fit stage.

By the time I reached the later rounds, it felt more demanding than the early screens. The first coding work was positioned as algorithmic practice, and the later technical steps pushed beyond just solving—especially when it came to system-scale thinking and how I explained architecture decisions. In the system design portion, I was asked to design things like login or account creation and to talk through non-functional requirements, often with an expectation of a micro-services