Tech(x) Software Engineer interview experience

The problem was set up as a single, multi-stage coding task where different parts of the requirement ramped in difficulty. It was designed to be built using React with JavaScript/TypeScript, and it felt like more than a quick “finish the question” exercise since the stages stacked on each other.

I spent the session working through the steps under the proctoring rules, trying to keep everything straight as the complexity changed. It wasn’t just coding for correctness; the structure of the task forced me to think carefully about how to evolve the solution across the different stages. I didn’t