I recently interviewed for a software engineering role and progressed until the second round. The first round began with some behavioral questions such as “Tell me about yourself,” “How do you approach a problem you’re solving?” and “How do you handle something unfamiliar?” After that, I was given two coding problems. The first one was a Leetcode medium-level problem (also tagged on Leetcode), which I was able to fully solve, including dry runs and edge case discussions. The second problem was similar in concept to the Alien Dictionary problem but not the same — I explained both the brute-force and the optimal approach, though I didn’t get time to fully implement it. The second round was more focused on algorithms and deeper problem-solving. I was asked a challenging question related to topological sorting, which wasn't from Leetcode and had a custom constraint twist. The interviewer joined about 20 minutes late but was kind enough to extend the session to give me the full time. In this round, there were also a couple of behavioral questions including “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and “Why Bloomberg?”