Twilio Software Engineer interview experience

I had a two-hour technical assessment in my own time, followed by a 500-word written assignment. That was the part that surprised me most—writing at that length felt like another way they evaluated how I reason and communicate, not just how I code.

After those async steps, I went into four live sessions. Two of them were with hiring managers, and the other two were pair programming sessions that lasted about 45 minutes each. In the pair programming, the structure was tight and collaborative, and it pushed me to work interactively instead of just producing an answer in isolation.

The process