Squarespace Software Engineer interview experience

I remember that the technical work was framed around how I thought rather than trying to prove I knew obscure facts. There was a coding assessment where I used Java to solve a problem, and the discussion around fundamentals of data structures and algorithms came up naturally while I worked through it. After that, there was a system design question that pushed me to explain tradeoffs and reasoning, not just produce an answer.

Overall, the loop felt like it had a clear flow and I didn’t feel like I was being left to guess what to do next. Interviewers treated my thinking as the main event—like