Speechify Software Engineer interview experience

The coding portion was a Java/Kotlin project with two self-contained tasks that were meant to be completed during the call. Once that part wrapped, I moved into a system design interview with the hiring manager.

That design conversation leaned more toward the kinds of APIs and data models I’d be working with day to day rather than spending most of the time diagramming a whole architecture. It felt like they were trying to connect the discussion back to practical implementation decisions.

I eventually received an offer, and the experience left me feeling like the interview questions were