Profound·Software Engineer·Take-home Assignment
Jun 2026
Take-home coding exercise for a Software Engineer role at Profound. The task was to build a CLI script that walks through a full credit management API workflow, from account creation to balance validation. Pretty self-contained but had some gotchas around auth and error handling.
- Build a command-line script that runs a full workflow against a sandbox credit management API: create an account, add credits, check balance, spend credits, check balance again, and assert the final balance is mathematically correct.
“The part that tripped me up first was figuring out the actual request format.”