Speechify·Software Engineer

Speechify Software Engineer interview experience

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My first real coding work for the role felt like a take-home that was still tightly bounded.

I had a 90-minute Python functional test with three tasks: building an LRU Cache Provider, implementing an SSML Parser, and then converting an SSML node tree into text. The rules were explicit and strict—no AI tools, no external libraries, and everything had to stay within the time limit.

Because of those constraints, I focused on getting the logic right rather than relying on anything outside the project. It was less about writing “flashy” code and more about handling the parsing and conversion steps carefully so the functions matched whatever the hidden checks were expecting.

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