Rover.com Software Engineer interview experience

In one phone interview, the conversation stayed broad and didn’t really establish the technical qualifications they were looking for. I also couldn’t ignore the impression that they weren’t getting engineering leadership right, especially around shipping software at scale.

Another part of the process felt like it started with a mismatch: I was contacted as if the role were full stack, but the process revealed it was really heavy on Python with a narrower focus than advertised. The phone screen involved string parsing and unit tests and was completed quickly. Then I was handed a longer coding