Slack Software Engineer interview experience

After applying online, the recruiter called me the next day just to talk about my work history and interests. That early step was casual, and the recruiter stayed as my main point of contact throughout.

Then I moved into an engineering fit discussion with an engineering manager. The balance was pretty even between collaboration and behavioral-style questions about projects I’d worked on, plus higher-level systems design questions. I didn’t run into the usual live coding or whiteboarding “gotcha” style questions. Instead, the systems design felt conversational, like a real discussion about