State Farm Software Engineer interview experience

The first part was through an asynchronous HireVue setup where I logged in, read each prompt, and recorded my answers with a camera. The behavioral questions were pretty standard STAR-style, but what made the experience rough was that near the end they added a coding task that had to be completed inside the same recording window.

The coding portion felt unlike anything I’d done before because I couldn’t ask clarifying questions, and the environment was essentially a basic text editor. I had to parse what they wanted by fitting my code into an existing codebase that wasn’t explained, and for