Upstart Software Engineer interview experience

I remember it feeling intense right away: the problems were strictly bounded, with the first timed very aggressively, then another medium-length one, and a final problem that felt more like a medium-hard LeetCode challenge. I didn’t clear that final round—mainly because the correct approach required very specific, optimal constraints.

After that initial screen/assessment path, later interviews I had for this role followed a similar shape: a CoderPad session with multiple coding questions. The set usually mixed easy and tougher ones, and once I got through the coding part, the next phase