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      Staff Software Engineer Interview

      20 Sept 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Nerdy in Aug 2025

      Interview

      The interview process felt very impersonal from start to finish. After each round, I requested feedback but never received any, only to be contacted days later with a generic message asking for my availability for the next step. The interviews themselves were surprisingly light in substance. The technical exercise was a simple React autocomplete component with no real complexity. The sequence of interviews included: - A standard recruiter video call. - A technical session with a developer who was more junior than the role I was interviewing for. - A conversation with the hiring manager, which was non-technical and very surface-level. - A final round with a Principal engineer, where I expected a system design interview but instead was asked questions mostly drawn from my resume. Overall, the process left me feeling like they weren’t genuinely hiring or were looking for something entirely different than described. In the end, I received a generic template rejection email stating they had decided to move forward with other candidates, without offering any feedback. This experience left me feeling like my time was wasted, and I would not recommend their process to others.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      generic autocomplete component with React, with some emphasis on accessibility attributes and keyboard events
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