Speechify Software Engineer interview experience

It had a strict 90-minute limit and the rules were very explicit: I needed a GitHub account to access the materials, and I had to pass all the tests to move on. It also required camera and screen sharing so they could record everything, which made the whole thing feel more monitored than collaborative.

The task itself focused on data-structure style logic and parsing SSML text, including a parser component where the prompt pushed you to understand how the input should be interpreted. I remember spending a lot of time just making sure my approach matched the constraints, because the