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Screna has 12 Headway interview write-ups. The most reported round is the system design round (5).

12 interview notes · updated Jul 2026

Headway·Software Engineer·Online Assessment (OA)

Jun 2026
Headway gave me a CodeSignal assessment for a Software Engineer role where the whole thing was one big rate-limiting implementation task. No LeetCode puzzles, just a real-ish project with threading concerns and window semantics to figure out.
  • You're given a REST API skeleton. Add rate-limiting middleware that enforces a global limit of 100 requests per minute and a per-endpoint limit of 3 requests per second, returning 429 when either is exceeded. Use a fixed-window approach and make sure the limiter wraps all handlers automatically.

“The fixed-window part tripped me up more than I expected.”

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Headway·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen

Jul 2026
Headway SWE interview, part of a three-question object-oriented design scenario. The coding portion was heavier on design thinking than raw algorithms, which I wasn't fully expecting.
  • Given a log file of road events parsed into objects with types ENTRY, MAINROAD, and EXIT, write a function that counts the total number of complete journeys across all vehicles. Events from different vehicles may be interleaved, so you need to group by vehicle identifier.

“This was part two of a three-part scenario so I came in with some context already built up, which helped.”

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