Hand-Coding a Cache, Then a 90-Minute Mini Project Running 4-5 AI Agents

I'm still in the process, so I'll mainly go over the flow and format of each round. After mass-applying, the first round was a 45-minute HM round, mostly chatting about my background. Then 1h of hand-coding. They provided a VS Code SSH environment and a project skeleton. HR had told me ahead of time that the rough scope would be backend and DB related, and in the end it was mainly implementing a…

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