Software Engineer, Full Stack Interview Experience

I got in through a referral, and the process was pretty clean: a casual recruiting chat, a 90-minute CoderPad, and then a final loop split across a few interviews. They also sent a PDF on what to expect, which I appreciated. The OA was just two LeetCode-medium-ish problems, but the final round was more product-heavy than I expected for a backend-leaning SWE role: a product-focused behavioral, a practical coding round based on a dubbing review workflow, and a product decomposition/system design round on basically that same workflow. I was more nervous than I needed to be, and overall it was not crazy hard, but the product decomposition round was the one thing that felt genuinely new. I made it to the final round and then got rejected.

I got in through a referral, and the process was pretty clean: a casual recruiting chat, a 90-minute CoderPad, and then a final loop split across a few interviews. They also sent a PDF on what to expect, which I appreciated. The OA was just two LeetCode-medium-ish problems, but the final round was more product-heavy than I expected for a backend-leaning SWE role: a product-focused behavioral, a practical coding round based on a dubbing review workflow, and a product decomposition/system design round on basically that same workflow. I was more nervous than I needed to be, and overall it was not crazy hard, but the product decomposition round was the one thing that felt genuinely new. I made it to the final round and then got rejected.