Scale Software Engineer interview experience

Scheduling and structure were pretty normal: I’d talk first to hiring-related folks, then I sat down for coding interviews, and later I met with the hiring manager and went through behavioral discussion.

On the technical side, the questions felt like LeetCode-style prompts, even if I couldn’t always find exact matches for them. I remember having a lot of live coding expectations—enough that I felt like I’d be writing real code the whole time instead of doing quick, toy solutions. One of the more memorable rounds blended implementation focus with systems-thinking, and I could feel how much