Rocket·Software Engineer

Rocket Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted Jul 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got reached out by a recruiter and talked about my background over the phone.

Then I was sent a proctored assessment that didn’t include much detail about timing or what I’d be building. It ended up taking four hours with no breaks, and the monitoring felt intense: my camera, mic, and browser tabs were recorded continuously.

I was given a virtual machine to code an app in, but the machine froze for long stretches, which made it feel like the execution itself was outside my control. Even though the actual question sounded easy at face value, the overall experience felt dehumanizing because of how chaotic and constrained the platform was.

I wasn’t able to make it

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