Vanta Software Engineer interview experience

The problem was split into two parts, and the first part was oddly dense: it turned into just a handful of if-statements checking deltas between inputs, but it was wrapped in a very complicated, “real-world” style description.

In practice, the trap was spending too long parsing rather than coding. In my case, I was encouraged to add extra tests even though they didn’t end up being necessary, and I ended up spending roughly 35–40 minutes on that section. The second part was where I felt I was actually being evaluated: I got a traversal problem based on parent/child relationships, like an org