Wise Software Engineer interview experience

After the initial HR conversation, I went into pair programming, then system design, and later rounds that leaned more toward product thinking and broader computer-science theory topics like databases and locking concepts. The overall framing made it feel like they were trying to assess everything from how I code to how I reason about architecture and requirements.

The parts that stood out to me most were how the later interviews could get oddly repetitive and how the pacing shifted once system design started to go deep. In particular, the system design segment felt like it accelerated into