Rover.com Software Engineer interview experience

The technical part started as a coding challenge with pre-written test cases, and I was expected to align the logic to what the tests asserted. It wasn’t just “write code and stop” either—each step was tied to strategy, and the conversation kept circling back to how I was approaching the solution, not just whether it worked.

The way it played out felt like an increasing chain of tasks where complexity ramped as the tests demanded more behavior. In some moments, the interviewer behavior made it clear they were watching how I used TDD: the focus was on my plan and mindset while iterating, and