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VerkadaSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Oct 2025

Here's another question that wasn't from the interview-experience wiki: Need to throw an exception when the input isn't valid. The interviewer's description of the problem was really ambiguous. I spent forever trying to clarify it and still couldn't figure out what he actually wanted. Was I supposed to implement just this one function, or simulate the whole game? The interviewer kept being vague…

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