Seatgeek·Software Engineer

Seatgeek Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted Oct 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My onsite experience started off promising overall, but it quickly became clear that one specific systems design interviewer was going to define how I felt about the round.

The interviewer seemed unable to reason about anything outside the standard web app stack—web service, data store, that kind of architecture.

As the conversation went on, the questions felt like they revealed a gap in understanding basic systems concepts. It was especially noticeable because the rest of the onsite felt better matched to real engineering discussion, and I could see the difference in engagement.

I didn’t get an offer, and later I learned the rejection was tied to that systems design interviewer. Even though the other rounds were okay, that one mismatch left me feeling like

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