Smartsheet Software Engineer interview experience

The recruiter screen went well, and I was told to expect an easy progression into a coding screen. Instead, what was presented as a one-hour coding round turned into system design.

At the onsite, the same mismatch continued. I went through a behavioral round, then multiple hours of coding and some trivial questions, and then another segment that was supposedly system design. That later segment ended up being more of a project deep dive with experience-based questions about edge situations you wouldn’t realistically run into with perfect systems architecture. I couldn’t answer parts of it,