Superhuman·Software Engineer

Superhuman Software Engineer interview experience

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After a recruiter call, about a week later I ended up in a set of technical rounds that moved quickly: a 60-minute phone coding screen followed by two video interviews.

The first video round was system design, and I was asked to design a counter with an emphasis on reliability and scaling.

In the next interview, I switched back to coding and got two related tasks: implement a rate limiter class and a PubSub subscription class. The coding felt demanding in practice, not just on paper. I initially gravitated toward a linear-style rate limiter approach, but that wasn’t what they were looking for, and I was pulled toward a token-based rate limiter. A big chunk of my time went into discussing token refill timing, and it ate into the rest of the

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