Niantic Software Engineer interview experience

I didn’t love how the interview was handled overall though; the structure felt a bit shaky and the interviewer didn’t seem as polished about running the process.

The part that threw me off was that I ended up with a “gotcha” style question rather than something that mapped cleanly to typical patterns. It made me feel like I was being evaluated on surviving the phrasing more than on solving the underlying problem.

I didn’t receive an offer, and the main thing I carried away was that the assessment itself could’ve been a normal experience, but the way the round was conducted made it feel less