Braze Senior Software Engineer interview questions

1hr Technical Assessment, then half-day of interviews consisting of debugging/refactoring code exercise (1hr), system design (1hr), behavioral (1hr), HR interview (15 min) My experience varied by who I spoke with. Really enjoyed the technical assessment and my conversation with the developer administering it. Also enjoyed the interview with the hiring manager. Felt the debugging interview was poorly designed. They ask you to download a zip with a program that implements the caesar cipher and debug some failing unit tests. But it didn't work, and I had to change from taking the test in python to taking the test in c#. The code is absolutely terrible and cryptic, and for the debug portion you aren't really allowed to refactor the code. They just want you to find the specific thing wrong with that one test. After 30 min, they begin the second part of that assessment and they let you start refactoring the code. The system design interview question was fairly standard, though I feel the prompt wasn't clearly explained by my interviewer. My worst interactions were actually with the in-house recruiters. Very unprofessional, and I was actually ghosted during my scheduled 15 min HR interview. Got a rejection email very late Friday (like 11:30 pm) night from him 3-4 days later.

Coding interview was extremely unprofessional. Was asked to solve as many brain teasers as possible, interviewer outright refused to answer any questions at all and just said “it’s all in the README”. When I attempted to improve the code I was told that I should only fix the bug, and shouldn’t make the code better (these instructions weren’t in the README) Other two interviews were system design questions, and they both seemed reasonable. If you’re interviewing here, you should fully expect them to do a weird flex as opposed to them trying to get a grasp on your experiences.