ShipBob Full Stack Engineer interview experience

First, I did a couple of exercises on HackerRank, which set the tone early with practical coding-style tasks. Then I joined a Skype call for a few open-ended questions where the conversation focused more on how I thought than on speed alone.

The last step was a technical exercise that felt more substantial than the first phase. It involved working through a tree-related algorithm and also writing a SQL query, so it mixed data-structure reasoning with something more database-oriented. The overall difficulty was average, and the format made it clear they wanted breadth rather than just one