Codespace-Based, No LeetCode, AI-Assisted Design Task

A recruiter reached out and went straight to scheduling a technical interview. Their interview process was pretty confusing — they used a GitHub Codespace, zero LeetCode, and it was split into two main parts. Part one: fix failing unit tests. The project was structured similarly to a Spring MVC app, and it also tested SQL. I had to fix a few SQL queries and write the logic for determining reward…

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