Niantic Software Engineer interview experience

I remember it felt more like a kickoff than real screening, and I was told it would be followed by two coding rounds over roughly two weeks. What threw me off was how little detail I got about what the coding rounds would look like, so I didn’t get much of a heads-up before I had to jump into them.

In my earlier stage interview, I had a more standard screening feel: they asked a lot of background questions, went over job details, and it was relatively easy to answer. The more technical side started to show up in later discussions where the format leaned toward a technical conversation