Square Software Engineer interview experience

The interviewer came back a bit later than scheduled, but once we started, the session had an odd rhythm: I got blocked from fully working through the challenge because the interviewer interrupted while I was speaking and even while I was typing.

The coding ended up turning into parallel edits, which threw me off more than I expected. By the time we got toward the finish, I couldn’t complete the last part due to a minor edge case. When the decision came, the feedback boiled down to my analysis and problem-solving not being up to the mark—even though I felt like the interruptions were