Instructure Sr Software Engineer interview questions

Initial phone call with company recruiter, follow-up technical call which involved a brief programming exercise and then a full day of in-person interviews involving white board code challenges and a lot of technical questions to see how I think and solve problems.

Took a 75 minute java software skill test. Questions were very broad and many I missed because it was very technology specific. For example, it asked about annotations for spring boot. I had never even used spring boot. There were several questions like that. One missed, next. Two missed next. They are eliminating good developers over their poor choice of questions. Then there was the two coding exercises. The first one I finished, but had trouble with the scanner part. Never used java's scanner before. Wasted most of the time trying to figure that out. Never got to the second coding exercise. I even had the advantage to have used hacker rank before and new how that worked. The two coding exercises were reverse polish notation and some water and elevation one using a 2 dimensional array. The water one was very ambiguous and hard to read on what they were trying to solve.