Wizards of the Coast Software Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

Applied online and got an email from the hiring manager. I tried replying multiple times with no luck, even though he reached out first. Finally, I connected and had a good chat with him. He then passed me to a recruiter, which was supposed to be the first step. After the recruiter meeting, I had to do a technical challenge, I could pick between front-end or back-end, and I chose back-end. After passing, I had 4 more interviews. 2 were with technical folks. They were nice, but didn't ask about my back-end challenge or even see my code. They also didn't know anything about the job I applied for. A third interview was about how I'd handle situations. A fourth was a final chat with the recruiter. I was told if I passed that, there'd be a final round in Seattle, which was basically a formality if I got there. Needless to say, I wasn't flying anywhere without serious guarantees. I got let go professionally at this stage. Everyone was nice, seemed like good people. But the process was way too long, showed indecisiveness and poor communication. It was also weird that the technical evaluators didn't know the job's technical needs.

So, the interview process started with a recruiter screening, then a pre-NDA hiring manager screen. After that, there was a post-NDA hiring manager technical interview. Next up was a two-person design and teamwork type interview. The final round was a "technical" interview, which is where things got weird. I was interviewing for a senior role, expecting questions about my experience with libraries, leading projects, etc. Instead, the first question was just 'what is Kotlin?', followed by textbook definitions and basic questions about custom views and other everyday stuff. Nothing about my actual experience or resume, not even a LeetCode coding challenge, which I'd prepared for. It felt like they were asking junior-level questions for a senior role. Also, they rushed me through the process because it was near the end of hiring for this position. The recruiter said they'd get back to me in a few days after debriefing, but they ghosted me. I was really accommodating, taking interviews on short notice, even rescheduling when someone was sick. I at least expected a rejection email, but instead, I feel like my time was wasted because the recruiter won't even give me a courtesy response after I tried contacting them twice for an update. They really don't respect your time.

Applied online and got a call from a recruiter about 3 weeks later. A week after that, had a phone interview with the recruiter, lasting about an hour and fifteen minutes. It was mostly behavioral questions with a few technical ones about design. An onsite interview got scheduled about a month after that. The whole thing took around 2.5 months. It's good to keep in touch with the recruiter often. My recruiter was fast to reply but didn't give updates unless I asked.