Slack Software Engineer interview experience

The technical part was a pair of LeetCode-style questions—one medium and one hard—and the hard one involved dynamic programming. Once that was done, the next interview was a system design conversation.

The whole sequence felt pretty straightforward and the people I dealt with were responsive. What surprised me a bit was how much the process emphasized project experience rather than pure coding speed. I went in expecting it to be more raw problem-solving, but the system design focus made it clear they wanted to hear how I’d worked on real things.

I didn’t get an offer for one of the