Oscar Health Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I had a 45-minute phone coding interview on CoderPad.

The coding question itself was described as pretty simple, and I was able to explain my approach out loud. The problem was that I couldn’t finish in time, even though the reasoning made sense to me as I worked through it—so the timing became the thing that mattered most. What surprised me was how much the interview leaned on pacing rather than complexity, and I left feeling like I had the right ideas but just didn’t execute fast enough.

I ultimately received a rejection and didn’t make it further, and that experience made it