Otter.ai Software Engineer interview experience

I was immediately put into a LeetCode-style medium challenge set—what stuck with me was that the problems heavily leaned on matrices, with implementation being the core work. There wasn’t a lot of room for wandering; I needed to focus on actually building the solution.

Time became the problem. I completed two of the questions, but I ran out of time before I could finish everything. What made it harder than it should’ve been was the way the interviewer spent a disproportionate amount of time explaining and asking questions that felt trivial rather than useful, so I had less time to write code