Qualys Software Engineer interview experience

The whole thing felt pretty structured: I was asked to work through at least one coding problem, talk through how I was thinking, and then get into data-structures style questions again. Once I got past that, the next interviews leaned more heavily on how to reason about scenarios and solve algorithmic problems, not just recall.

By the time the design and managerial pieces came up, it was clear they wanted more than “run the code” answers. I ended up discussing system design topics and connecting them back to things I’d done before, and I also had a managerial conversation that covered past