Speechify·Software Engineer

Speechify Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Aug 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a single, long technical assessment that was basically all about debugging with an LLM.

After an initial step, I was dropped into a 90-minute proctored-style codebase exercise where I could use AI tools while working in an unfamiliar repository. The goal wasn’t just to make the tests pass—it was to audit and improve things like security, performance bottlenecks, and observability.

I had to hunt down and fix a set number of issues—five in my run—across those areas, and it felt unusually time-compressed for something in a new codebase. I was allowed to lean on tools for reasoning, but I still spent most of my time tracing through the repo, figuring out what each issue actually

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