Reddit Backend Engineer interview experience

The onsite included three coding interviews plus a hiring manager round, with no system design component for the level I was interviewing for.

Across the coding rounds, I had to demonstrate I could solve problems and communicate clearly while working through them. The hiring manager conversation focused on my experience and how I’d approached past work, and it was integrated enough that it didn’t feel like a separate, unrelated box-check.

The process itself felt smooth, but I didn’t receive feedback on how I’d done. I didn’t get an offer, and the frustrating part was that even though