Reddit Software Engineer interview experience

The phone stage focused on problem solving and a high-level solution discussion afterward. A few days later, I was scheduled for an onsite that ran several hours—roughly a 5–6 hour block for me—with a pretty full slate.

Onsite, I had multiple technical rounds: two coding problems and also a design problem. The coding work was a mix of whiteboard-style and Coderpad-style depending on the interviewer, and it felt less like a pure “gotcha” and more like thinking out loud while building toward a solution. I also sat through cross-functional discussions with product managers during lunch, plus