Patreon Software Engineer interview experience

I started with the recruiter and then moved into a technical interview that, on paper, was straightforward—mostly easy problems (one was even presented as something like a SQL-focused assessment) and in general the difficulty looked manageable.

But the experience was thrown off by logistics and communication gaps. One interviewer seemed to misunderstand the language and setup, which made the session awkward and slow to click. In another case, the process itself got delayed dramatically, with rescheduling stretching what should have been a short timeline into months, and the final round got