Interviews

The Dell Technologies Software Engineer Graduate Co-op loop in March 2025. A meet and greet with the hiring leader, a 90 minute session pairing a LeetCode easy with a test-driven design problem, and an offer call. The most useful moment in it was a question I held back until after the final round.

A cold application to Bloomberg's 2026 entry-level SWE role in New York. Cleared the first round, reached the optimal solution in the second, and spent most of that hour explaining C++ to interviewers who did not read it. Rejected two days later.

The Adobe SWE internship loop in November 2024, start to offer. An online assessment, one live problem-solving round, one hiring manager round, and the offer call. The shortest loop I have sat, and the only one that turned into a career.

A full SWE loop at a Series B inference startup. Two problem-solving rounds, a fit round, and a cofounder round I did not solve. Rejected, told why, and still in touch with the team.

An SDE1 onsite for the AWS S3 Glacier team at Amazon's Seattle HQ, four rounds, and a recruiter who never called back. What the loop actually measured, and what I think after the fifth one.