Smartsheet Software Engineer interview experience

The interviewer gave me one hard problem or two problems to choose from, and I ended up doing the two-problem version.

One problem involved removing the nth element in a linked list. The follow-up extended that by asking me to write an atoi function. The emphasis was very explicit: they wanted to see how I’d produce correct output, and there weren’t any hints provided during the process.

I felt the round was challenging but manageable. I didn’t get an offer, and looking back, the lack of hints made the experience more stressful than it needed to be, especially compared to interviews that