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Coding and System Design Blended Into One 75-Minute Screen

AttentiveSoftware Engineer · New Grad · Technical Screen · Apr 2026

It was 75 minutes long. They said it would be coding + system design, but in practice the two were mixed together, and the questions were pretty scattered and casual. The last 5 minutes were reverse behavioral questions, where I got to ask them things. The problem wasn't quite like a LeetCode problem — they didn't clearly spell out what the input was. They wanted me to design it myself and then j…

Shared by a candidate · reported Apr 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.