Slack Software Engineer interview experience

It started with a preliminary coding challenge, and once I passed that, the rest shifted away from heavy technical grilling. I had a recruiter phone screen after that, and then a final behavioral interview.

In my recruiter interaction, the conversation felt more like checking boxes than exploring my actual background. I left with the sense that the recruiter wasn’t really engaging with what I’d worked on, just scanning for whether my resume aligned with their internal categories. The coding part itself wasn’t framed as an open-ended architecture gauntlet; it was more like a gate before the