Whatnot Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I spoke with a recruiter, and then I had a single Karat interview with an engineer that lasted an hour. That hour was split so the first part was a project discussion and the second part was coding.

It moved in a fairly linear way—assessment, recruiter check-in, then the structured technical session. At the time, I was still waiting on further steps, but the experience I had so far felt organized and clearly timed.

I left that phase of the loop feeling like the process was designed to evaluate both how I approached work and how I performed during the coding portion. I didn’t