Qualtrics Software Engineer interview experience

The main interviews included two coding challenges, each about an hour and a half with time to complete them, and then an architecture interview.

The coding problems were medium in difficulty, but they expected me to state time and space complexity as part of the solution. The architecture interview, though, became the hardest part of the whole process. The person running it seemed inexperienced in how to conduct interviews, and there was a more senior HR person shadowing as a kind of “reverse shadowing.”

The architecture prompt was to design a rate-limiting system, but the direction felt