Qualtrics Software Engineer interview experience

In those rounds, I talked through a web crawler handling roughly a million users per day and then a survey sending system around five thousand users per day—nothing that felt like obscure, futuristic engineering.

Then the coding round went off the rails. The interviewer started out adversarial and repeatedly interrupted me mid-solution to challenge whether I truly understood what I was writing. When I gravitated toward an optimal approach that aligned with patterns from their prep materials, it was treated like something suspicious instead of good preparation. The interruptions killed my