Reddit Software Engineer interview experience

I went through a hiring-manager conversation, then a technical interview with general technical questions before landing in a longer four-hour onsite that mixed system design, coding, and behavioral. The confusing part was that the position kept changing during the process, and by the time I reached the later rounds the target had effectively shifted into a Staff Engineer direction—something that didn’t match what I had originally applied for or shown interest in. The final behavioral interview with the actual hiring manager reinforced that gap, and it left me feeling like both of us were