Tide Software Engineer interview experience

I was asked to review a microservice controller code snippet, and most of the questions were anchored directly to what I pointed out during the review. As I moved through my comments, they also asked about system design decisions surrounding that snippet.

The round felt like a conversation built on my own observations rather than a generic checklist. I left it feeling like the interviewer cared a lot about how I linked concrete code review observations to the bigger architectural reasoning.

I didn’t end up with an offer. Still, the experience was aligned with how I’d expect a software role