Speechify Software Engineer interview experience

I was given an assignment first, and I remember thinking it was a bit out of context without any preliminary call to understand what “fit” meant or how the task would be evaluated. I didn’t complete it right then, and later they reached back again.

When I eventually did speak with a recruiter, it was a shorter, more conventional screening conversation focused on my background and fit for the role. After that, I had live coding on a schedule, and the session involved an assignment where I worked through it live while staying within the timebox.

Despite getting through the first stages, I