Scale Software Engineer interview: card-game coding exercise

The recruiting flow felt friendly at first, then the technical work proved unlike a standard LeetCode trick question. The coding prompt used a card-game theme and was more about implementing many conditions than finding an elegant idea. It moved through multiple cases, so I had to track the logic and states carefully. In the live coding round, I needed to work through those conditions quickly. Th…

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