TomTom Software Engineer interview experience

In my case, the early interviews went smoothly, and the recruiter felt welcoming.

My second interview included coding tasks tied to OOP concepts and LeetCode-style questions in the easy-to-medium range. That’s what made what happened next feel so surprising: the third interview shifted toward a much more “challenging” coding format, and the recruiter even warned to expect pseudocode preparation—but the actual live coding focused on C++ pointers and required correct syntax where the code had to compile. I felt like I’d prepared for something different, and that mismatch threw me off.

I got a