Postman Software Engineer interview experience

I first met with the hiring manager, and most of that time felt like a deep dive into my resume—how I’d worked through past projects, the kinds of systems I’d touched, and how I’d approached debugging and scaling. The conversation had a lot of open-ended prompts, and I had to keep explaining my thinking rather than just giving surface-level answers.

Then I moved to system design. The prompt was framed like a classic large-scale distributed systems design problem, and it was all about laying out the pieces of the system and how the design would hold up as load and complexity grew. Overall it