Oscar Health Software Engineer interview experience

After that, there was a phone coding interview.

The interviewer said the question was fair, and I agree it was workable, but I struggled with one specific part that I didn’t understand. What made it worse was how critical the interviewer was about that element. It wasn’t that the problem was impossible—it was more that the interaction didn’t feel patient or collaborative when I was trying to figure out what they meant.

I didn’t make it past that phone coding stage. Afterward, I couldn’t shake the feeling that the difficulty wasn’t only in the task; it was also in the way the evaluation was