Smartsheet Software Engineer interview: Roman-to-integer coding and outage-detector design

After the recruiter reached out through LinkedIn, the timeline was straightforward. I was scheduled for a coding round and a design round as part of the Senior Software Engineer process, and I completed them back-to-back. The recruiter arranged the calls and kept the scheduling moving. For coding, I solved a Roman-to-integer style problem. The design question was an outage detector modeled after…

Shared by a candidate · reported Nov 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.