YouTube Software Engineer interview experience

The process felt demanding because they asked multiple questions about my master’s thesis and also pulled in details from my research projects. What made it harder wasn’t that the questions were unfair—it was that the work was from years earlier, and I had to dig up specifics I hadn’t thought about in a long time.

I didn’t have the kind of experience where they only asked general background. Instead, the conversation felt like a deep dive into my own past, and I struggled at times just keeping the details straight.

I didn’t get an offer, and honestly it left me with mixed feelings: I could