Tide Software Engineer interview experience

It felt fairly relaxed—still an interview, but not the kind that instantly turned tense for me.

After that came an onsite coding challenge where I was left with an over-an-hour coding exercise to think through how I approached the work. Once I finished the coding, the interview moved into a whiteboarding discussion about what I’d written. That part was less about getting more code and more about architecture and how I thought about things like user stories and how the architecture might evolve over time.

The overall difficulty was average, and I didn’t end up getting an offer. What I