Supermicro Software Engineer interview: medium coding questions under pressure

My interview opened with a basic introduction and then went directly to two medium-level LeetCode questions. One was a balloon-bursting-style problem, and the other involved tree path sum. The difficulty felt easy, but I still choked during the session. There was little beyond the usual expectation that I reason through the approach and implement it. The larger problem was performing under pressu…

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