Sonos·Software Engineer

Sonos Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Apr 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a recruiter call where we talked about open projects and the company’s end goals, and then it quickly became a video chat with a software development manager.

After that, I was asked to complete a code challenge that was extremely open-ended, with no time limit and vague instructions.

The hardest part for me wasn’t just finishing the work—it was realizing how the grading seemed disconnected from what the prompt actually asked for. The feedback scoring appeared to penalize details that felt irrelevant, like the framework choice, even though the challenge guidelines didn’t specify that it mattered. Even if I built a fully working and tested solution, the scoring still deducted points for things like how many classes were used, and that was never

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