Reddit Software Engineer interview experience

Across the technical parts, the questions were usually reasonable in difficulty, and interviewers were polite enough.

On the onsite, I experienced a mix that looked like backend-focused evaluation: background and project history, then open-ended questions about data structures and high-level design. After that came coding work in the easier-to-low-medium range. I also had rounds that felt like a standard sequence—recruiter first, then a technical screen, then onsite blocks—and in general it didn’t feel wildly inconsistent with what I expected.

What ended up souring it for me wasn’t the