PlayStation Software Engineer interview experience

At first it felt like a standard technical ladder: I’d move through a series of rounds where the topics were clearly split by specialty.

One phase was explicitly front-end versus back-end. I had a front-end style discussion centered on basic JavaScript, then another round that focused more on algorithms. After those technical checks, there was also a casual conversation with a manager that felt less about trick questions and more about how I worked and communicated.

In a separate but similar experience, I met an engineering manager through a specialized career event, dropped off my resume,