Whatnot Software Engineer interview experience

The biggest thing that threw me off wasn’t the difficulty of the problems—it was how the instructions were communicated. After completing the first question, they clarified that the expectation was to solve both questions within the total time, and there wasn’t much emphasis on walking through my approach.

So even though the round was straightforward on paper, the lack of clarity about what they wanted from an explanation versus just producing solutions made it feel oddly stressful. I was focused on the coding, but the timing expectation changed the way I needed to allocate my mental