The interviewer was very disinterested. He asked me to give introduction and while I was speaking, he was not even looking at me. Then straight away got to coding questions. 1. Simplify the directory path 2. Multiplication of 2 very large numbers They have their own coding platform. They share a link and you have to code in that while sharing your screen. I kept speaking about what I'm doing while coding, didn't get any feedback from the interviewer. While on the second question, I had almost finished coding, just had to implement the logic to add all the rows, when he said, he understood the approach and would like to end the interview. So in conclusion : Introduction and 2 coding questions were asked. I think the interviewer hardly spoke more than 10 sentences in the entire 1.5 hours of interview.

Pros: Great initial approach – the recruiter thoroughly checked my GitHub profile and projects before the interview, which is very uncommon and shows they do their homework. Cons: A major mismatch between the job description ("Software Engineer C++") and the actual interview reality. The technical stage on CoderPad strictly tests bare-metal C98 skills: raw pointers, manual bitwise operations, and packing bytes into 64-bit integers. If you are accustomed to modern C++ (RAII, templates, safe memory management), this will feel like a massive step backward. Additionally, the time expectations for live low-level bit-shifting were unrealistic, to the point where the interviewer started solving the task themselves. Interview was kind and not stressful, just minor mismatch of naming