Postman Software Engineer interview experience

The system design part centered on a job executor service, where I had to talk through a high-level architecture and how the service would work.

In the coding round, the prompt was more hands-on. I had to write end-to-end code to find duplicate files in a directory recursively—iterate through all files, compute what made them duplicates, and produce the result. It wasn’t just about writing a function; it was about stitching the whole flow together.

Across both rounds, the difficulty felt average, and I didn’t receive an offer. Even so, the process was pretty direct: design first to show how