Whatnot·Software Engineer

Whatnot Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first meaningful technical round was a Karat interview, and it started with a discussion of my project.

After that, I had two coding questions to solve. I struggled on the second one and couldn’t get all the test cases to pass, which made the whole session feel like I was chasing correctness at the end.

In another attempt, the Karat interview went poorly in a different way: the interviewer explained the problem badly and then ran out of time before I could fully implement. A big chunk of the session became stuck on explaining the question rather than actually building the solution, and that threw me off.

Yet another Karat session had a different rhythm: the first part started with time spent

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