Rover.com Software Engineer interview experience

That went well, and I moved on to a coding project take-home assignment.

The take-home work was where I got tripped up. The requirements were broader than what the team actually seemed to evaluate, and the instructions didn’t make that distinction obvious. I spent too much time building exactly to the written requirements, including lots of effort on pieces that didn’t end up mattering as much. I remember realizing, after the fact, that I had optimized for the wrong parts and didn’t allocate enough time to the areas they were really going to look at.

I wasn’t invited to the next step after