Stackadapt·Software Engineer

Stackadapt Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Oct 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The recruiter part of the process felt normal, but the technical journey was one of my worst experiences.

It went from a phone screen into a virtual onsite that mixed backend and frontend checks in a very narrow way: I was asked to do a backend program design/coding exercise, then a backend infrastructure systems design prompt, and finally a frontend syntax check.

The frontend portion threw me off. They weren’t really trying to see whether I could spot and reason about a backend/frontend data inconsistency; instead, it felt like they were mainly assessing whether I remembered specific React syntax. On top of that, I wasn’t allowed to use Google, which made it feel more like memory recall than

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