Reddit·Software Engineer

Reddit Software Engineer interview experience

Medium

Positive

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first technical part felt very design-and-reasoning heavy.

After a recruiter-style kickoff, I got pulled into a coding session that started with building a tennis game scoring system. The problem wasn’t just “make it work”—I had to walk through object-oriented design and state machine concepts while managing the score for a single game, then expanding it toward sets and matches.

As I went, the interviewer kept digging into scoring rules, winning conditions, and edge cases. I had to clarify assumptions about the API and the meaning of key inputs and then keep my thought process moving as the rules got more complex. I remember having to land on solid

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