Rover.com Software Engineer interview experience

The interviewer started with an expression-processing type question, but it was pitched at an unrealistically simple level for the role, like parsing basic integer strings. When I tried to push into how the solution could handle more realistic complexity, the interviewer seemed to rein me back in.

We stayed stuck on those “naive” questions for about 45 minutes, and I never got to the harder part that felt relevant to how expression parsing actually shows up in real systems. Even though I felt like my code was correct in the tooling and the answers worked through the runs, a few days later I