Vanta·Software Engineer

Vanta Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Jun 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

For the live-coding exercise, I got a lot of prep materials ahead of time, including an example video, which I really appreciated.

When I joined CoderPad, the initial problem felt straightforward and I worked through it. Then the interviewer increased the complexity.

I got nervous but stayed confident. I talked through a couple possible solutions, including an approach using reduce and recursion. I decided to go with the reduce approach, but the interviewer interrupted me and reacted to it. There was a stretch where I explained my reasoning and got silence, so I asked what they were looking for. The response seemed to center on my mention of recursion, and I felt pushed into switching paths even though I honestly didn’t

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