Warner Bros. Discovery Software Engineer interview experience

After an initial recruiter/HR touch, I ended up doing technical rounds that centered on DSA and DBMS fundamentals, plus a discussion of past projects. The format stayed very much in the “solve and explain” lane: I’d work through problems, talk through how I approached them, then connect my reasoning back to how I’d done similar work before.

In the middle of it, the interviewers leaned heavily into what I’d actually done and how I’d solved specific problems, not just surface-level answers. I also had a couple moments where it wasn’t really about trick questions so much as showing I could