Autodesk Software Engineer interview: longest-substring DSA screen

After a recruiter call, I entered a structured sequence. I started with a short introduction about a university or personal project, then had a technical screen with one medium-level DSA problem: finding the longest substring without repeating characters. The interviewer followed up on complexity, edge cases, and possible optimizations.

Later, I went through a deeper track with senior and principal engineers. I had an hour-long discussion of my experience with a senior software engineering interviewer. The last round was coding with a principal engineer. The coding task itself felt easier, but the pressure came from digging into C++ fundamentals and the reasoning behind the implementation.

The final round did not feel like I was failing on the surface, but I was not invited to the next step. The process felt cut short despite how much effort I had put in.

Location: London, England. Overall feedback: positive. Offer status: no offer.