Warner Bros. Discovery Software Engineer interview experience

I started with a coding round, then moved into a system design conversation where the focus was on modeling an end-to-end flow. One prompt was centered on a rate limiter, and I had to think about classes, how they’d interact, and what assumptions the design depended on.

After that, I got pulled into a deeper architecture discussion tied to a project. The questions went beyond “describe your system” and kept drilling into design decisions, including trade-offs and cross-cutting considerations. Even when the prompt sounded concrete, the real work was explaining how the pieces would behave