Seatgeek Software Engineer interview experience

That first technical question was pretty pragmatic: I had to think through how to build a rate-limiting tool. It wasn’t about memorizing algorithms so much as describing the components and tradeoffs in a way that felt grounded.

Later, I went onsite and the rounds were a mix of live discussion and deeper design thinking. I had a programming question where I talked through a plan rather than doing a full implementation, focused on how I’d tackle parsing data from tickets. Then there were two system design interviews: one was a fairly standard design conversation around an API for ticket