Slack Software Engineer interview experience

It started with a recruiter screen and then moved to a manager screen. After that, I had a code review take-home assignment that took me about an hour and a half.

The final phase was a loop with system design, coding, and behavioral conversations. The coding block itself ran about an hour and a half, and the behaviorals brought in two separate sessions. The managers I spoke with were genuinely great and the conversations felt constructive, but the engineers I interacted with didn’t seem particularly engaged, like the meetings had less energy than I expected.

After the final loop, I thought