Slack Software Engineer interview experience

The job sounded genuinely interesting, and that early positive energy carried me into the next stage.

Then came a coding challenge, and I struggled to finish the second part. The task involved counting patterns inside an alphanumeric string, and the approach felt “insane” in the sense that it turned into a very specific kind of logic under time pressure. I didn’t make it to the end of that part, and that was the stopping point for me.

I wasn’t offered the role, but I still walked away with a complicated feeling: I liked Slack’s product a lot, and the early conversations reinforced that,