Tinder Full Stack Engineer interview experience

Onsite was the real stretch: it was thorough and felt like it went on forever, with me meeting roughly ten different people. I had highly relevant experience, and the interviews felt more like lots of social interaction and conversations than anything intensely technical.

Even though the coding side wasn’t particularly hard, I still got rejected, and the recruiters didn’t really communicate what drove the decision. It left me genuinely confused—there wasn’t a clear explanation, and the best guess I had was that I was too nervous or not as comfortable socially as they wanted. Looking back,