Stackadapt Software Engineer interview experience

The interviewer never opened their camera for the entire session, and the coding questions were too hard for the time I had, especially when the expectation seemed to be that I wouldn’t need to run the code. Time pressure turned the round into a stress test more than a measure of how I’d actually build.

I also felt like the structure wasn’t set up to let me demonstrate good engineering decision-making—there just wasn’t enough room to answer thoroughly. By the end, I wasn’t confident my work was being judged fairly, since the format made success largely depend on getting extremely complex