Rocket·Software Engineer

Rocket Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted Apr 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a pretty short sequence: a phone screen, then an online coding assessment, then a team interview coding round, and finally an architecture/design step.

The phone screen was simple. The first big surprise came with the online assessment tool—it used an invasive plugin that monitored browser tabs, and although it got removed after, it still made the experience feel uncomfortable.

The coding assessment itself was oddly lightweight: a 20-minute API implementation where I was asked to call an endpoint and build the solution. The issue was that the team didn’t disclose ahead of time that I’d need my own IDE, so I lost time doing setup instead of focusing purely on the coding. The API also had an odd limitation around pagination, which made it

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