Square Software Engineer interview experience

It was a pair programming style setup where I felt the interviewer was more interested in steering me toward their preferred solution than actually learning how I reasoned.

The challenge involved working on a small game board where a player shows up, and my instincts leaned toward test-driven steps: establish the board rendering first, then expand into movement, then handle bounds, and so on. The structure of the interview didn’t really let that style play out; it pushed me away from that approach and even discouraged thinking carefully about edge cases, which ran against how I normally