Scale Software Engineer interview experience

After that, there was a technical phone screen with a senior engineer, then I met with the hiring manager to talk through my past work and some behavioral questions. From there, the process moved into a final loop covering a mix of mostly technical topics and additional behavioral content.

The coding side in particular leaned heavy: the interviews weren’t short, and the style felt like repeated coding rounds with some standard behavioral check-ins. Even when the questions weren’t supposed to be surprising, I remember how the sessions sometimes dragged on and how the interviewers didn’t