New Relic Software Engineer interview experience

The interviewer felt like a very recent graduate and the task description was poorly framed—there weren’t clear input/output specifications and there weren’t meaningful edge cases defined. I had to ask multiple clarifying questions just to understand what was expected and to cover possible cases.

Even with the ambiguity, I solved the problem within the given time. Later the same day I received feedback that I had “explained problem multiple times,” which landed as unfair to me because the ambiguity came from how the question was written, not from me refusing to move forward.

That mismatch