Full-Stack Engineer Interview Experience

I got in through a referral for a front-end leaning generalist engineering role, and the whole process was way more streamlined than most engineering loops I've done. It was a recruiter screen, a LeetCode-style Python round, a practical front-end debugging round in a small React app, and then a final decomposition interview that turned out to be much more product-focused than I expected. The interviewers were generally engaged, friendly, and professional, and the recruiter was especially responsive, but the final round felt awkward because I never really knew what they wanted from me. What stood out most was how short the process was and the fact that there was no system design at all. They seem to expect their engineers to have real product sense, not just coding skills.

I got in through a referral for a front-end leaning generalist engineering role, and the whole process was way more streamlined than most engineering loops I've done. It was a recruiter screen, a LeetCode-style Python round, a practical front-end debugging round in a small React app, and then a final decomposition interview that turned out to be much more product-focused than I expected. The interviewers were generally engaged, friendly, and professional, and the recruiter was especially responsive, but the final round felt awkward because I never really knew what they wanted from me. What stood out most was how short the process was and the fact that there was no system design at all. They seem to expect their engineers to have real product sense, not just coding skills.