Retool·Software Engineer

Retool Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Even though my initial impression was positive, the interview experience quickly soured for me.

I started with a recruiter conversation where I was told the coding would be more practical than classic LeetCode, and I prepared for practical-style problems. During the actual phone screen, though, the question turned out to be one of those classic types, and the interviewer’s demeanor felt disengaged—mostly silent—and also arrogant, which spiked my anxiety and clearly affected my performance.

The system design portion was especially frustrating because it was done on Google Docs, and I wasn’t prepared for the tooling or the flow. We spent a lot of time trying to nail down requirements,

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