Otter.ai·Software Engineer

Otter.ai Software Engineer interview experience

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Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My recruiter chat was friendly, and after that I got a 45-minute live coding interview with an engineer.

The problem was a LeetCode-style medium-hard grid challenge: finding the shortest path between two points/islands within a grid. I came in with a BFS approach that worked, and the interviewer pushed me to optimize, which I was fine with.

The interview derailed when I started coding the optimized solution. During that section I noticed chess-like audio in the background, and when I glanced at the video call it was clear the engineer wasn’t paying attention while I walked through my code. It hit me as extremely disrespectful and it completely threw off my momentum, especially because a

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