Smartsheet·Software Engineer

Smartsheet Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Seattle, WAPosted Mar 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Once I got through the earlier recruiter call and into the later stages, the process culminated in a very long coding-focused final loop.

It included a first round that ran for about two hours and then a final round that stretched to about four hours. By the time I reached the coding interview with a principle engineer, it already felt like a high-stakes setting.

The coding portion went especially badly. I gave an approach that later turned out to be correct when the code was run, but the interviewer repeatedly assumed I was wrong early on and spent a large portion of the hour trying to explain why my approach should be incorrect. I also wasn’t given test cases written out ahead of time, so I had to spend around ten minutes

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