Software Engineer Interview Experience

I applied online and the process started with a 30-minute engineer screen instead of a recruiter screen. After that, they scheduled what I was told were the final rounds: two coding interviews on one day and a design round the next day. The first coding round was a standard LRU cache interview and felt fair, but the second one was rough because the interviewer gave me a big LLM-related codebase, refused to clarify inputs or outputs, and just kept telling me to read the code. That same evening, they canceled my last design round and then ghosted me when I asked for an explanation. Overall it felt very inconsistent: one interviewer was reasonable, the next was not, and the process ended without any real closure.

I applied online and the process started with a 30-minute engineer screen instead of a recruiter screen. After that, they scheduled what I was told were the final rounds: two coding interviews on one day and a design round the next day. The first coding round was a standard LRU cache interview and felt fair, but the second one was rough because the interviewer gave me a big LLM-related codebase, refused to clarify inputs or outputs, and just kept telling me to read the code. That same evening, they canceled my last design round and then ghosted me when I asked for an explanation. Overall it felt very inconsistent: one interviewer was reasonable, the next was not, and the process ended without any real closure.