Postman Software Engineer interview experience

First was a hiring manager round where we talked through my resume in depth, including problems I’d faced in past work and how I tackled them. They also asked about what I might improve with hindsight, which forced me to be honest and specific.

Next was a machine coding round, followed by a system design round. Even though I didn’t get a ton of detail on exact prompts from this memory of the process, the overall structure was clear: coding skills first, then a design conversation.

It felt like an average-difficulty set of interviews, and I did receive an offer. What stayed with me most was