Otter.ai Software Engineer interview experience

I was told that if I didn’t have a particular skill yet, it wouldn’t really matter because I could pick it up on the job as long as I had most of what they needed.

Then the written online interview threw me a curveball: there was a question about that very skill they’d earlier downplayed. Even though I handled the rest of the questions well, missing that one ended up feeling like the “whammy” that ruined the logic of the whole process. By the end, it didn’t just feel like tough interview performance—it felt like an avoidable mismatch between what I was told and what was actually