Optum Software Engineer interview experience

It had four questions total: three APIs to build and then an additional task to build a rate limiter. I could tell it was evaluating more than just whether I could get a result—it felt like the scoring was sensitive to how the implementation came together, but the exact mechanics weren’t clear.

Honestly, it was hard to crack. Even when I understood the general approach, squeezing everything into the expected solution format under the constraints of the screen was stressful. I didn’t feel confident that my effort mapped cleanly to how they were grading.

I didn’t get an offer. My take on it