Nuna Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

So it was a typical process, I interviewed sometime in 2022-2023. First, a Recruiter- Hiring Manager call which was more behavioral and talking tech. Then came the Onsite. They didn't tell me what to expect for each round or what they're looking for, which would have helped because the rounds are vaguely named "coding" or "sys design". The Onsite itself was alright. For a startup, they were very organized. I had 2-3 coding rounds and 1-2 systems design rounds. The coding rounds are unique, not impossible, and not exactly leetcode questions, but you can definitely do better if you're good at leetcode. One problem was more on the weird, hard side, but they were still fun problems to solve, definitely not a pair programming exercise. You drive the problem-solving process, you can ask for clarifications, and that's it. The systems design round was the weirdest one. I felt like for a company that makes you sign an NDA, they sure didn't respect mine and made me talk technical details about systems design at a previous job. In hindsight, I should have said I wasn't sure if we could talk about my previous job in that capacity because I wasn't sure what details I'm supposed to omit. It didn't help that the interviewer wasn't very nice, sounded like he was constantly yelling, cut me off while explaining, and was sort of demeaning in his tone like "Really YOU did THIS? This SCALE isn't that BIG WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS". Excuse me, I hope you know some of us peons just get strong-armed into making decisions we don't want at work. Also please let me talk through the approach and tell you why, but don't cut me off. I was literally just getting there! Overall the company seems to be on a good mission. People are obviously brilliant and have the right tech pedigree to take the company to unrivaled heights. However, one of the interviewers left a sour taste in my mouth.

The whole thing took about a month, starting from the initial tech screens on CoderPad all the way to getting the offer. After the tech screens, I had a systems design interview with Deepak, who is the Head of Engineering. Then I talked with Jini, the CEO. Misty and Fran were super helpful and great to work with during the process.

The interview process was absolutely horrible. The interviewer was so disengaged, he was checking his email while I was coding. At the end, he just wanted to go over my solution. Nothing else really happened in the whole interview process. Even when I was explaining all the steps and reasons behind my coding, he asked the same question again. He also asked questions unrelated to Java, and even though he admitted he didn't know Java, he still wanted to argue about OOP principles. It was a bad experience, definitely dodged a bullet. Wouldn't want to work with someone so out of touch.