Scale Software Engineer interview experience

The company’s engineering size made communication stand out to me, and the interviewer didn’t come across as very clear. I asked a few clarifying questions at the beginning, and he initially confirmed what I thought the problem was, which made me confident.

But then the goal kept shifting during the hour. I’d try to confirm what I was solving for, and he would tell me to discard the earlier framing and start again, repeating that pattern multiple times. At one point I was completely unsure what the right version of the task even was, because every attempt to verify my understanding led to