Tide Software Engineer interview experience

From there, I moved into two face-to-face style interview rounds, each with two interviewers, and the conversations were practical and grounded in day-to-day engineering.

Across the interviews, I covered a mix of Java, data structures, databases, microservices, and topics like scaling. What stood out most was that there was also a case study tied to a small, real-world requirement from the product. I had to work through a solution discussion that touched on how I’d think about scaling, how I’d approach coding standards, and how to structure the solution in a way that made sense for the