Patreon Software Engineer interview experience

The recruiter call was meant to match me to the role and set expectations, and then about a short time later I had a phone technical interview where the pacing didn’t leave much room to reason out my approach. It was framed as a couple questions squeezed into a tight window, and the interviewer effectively moved things along by revealing parts of what I was struggling with rather than really building back-and-forth.

What stood out was how hard it was to even tell what was being asked. The example I was given relied on text to explain timestamps and states, and it didn’t come across cleanly,