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Scale Software Engineer interview experience

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CanadaPosted Mar 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a quick recruiter chat, and shortly after I was handed some kind of packaged material to help me get familiar with card-game concepts before the actual interview.

The format felt very hands-on. When the technical part started, I implemented a card game from a provided Python class, working through the requirements live.

The experience around the coding segment varied in how smooth it felt, but the core theme stayed the same: the interview centered on building game logic under time pressure and lots of constraints and details. I also ran into a situation where the interviewer’s tooling didn’t seem to line up with what I was expected to use, so I ended up implementing pieces myself rather than relying on the built-in functions they assumed would be

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