I feel like I bombed a full-stack interview but need some opinions
Ok so basically I got referred into this fintech company, they do mortgage broker software, and I've been building up shared ownership knowledge lately so it actually started off great, chatting with one of the engineers who'd be my shadow and it just felt like a good vibe going in.
Thing is I'm frontend leaning right now, like properly leaning, I'm the only frontend dev at my current place so I do a lot of architecture stuff but backend is not my strong suit. This role was full stack though and I figured I'd just see what happened.
Coding round was a stamp duty calculator, different logic depending on if you're a first time buyer, second time buyer, or you're returning and own other property. And honestly I fumbled it badly. The only thing I got right was writing the function and adding the params. That's it. Couldn't get the actual logic working, just panicked a bit.
Second part was system design, entities and data structure stuff for Postgres, basically modelling out a mortgage broker app where brokers send off client applications with property price and documents etc. This bit I actually felt solid on, I broke down the entities properly and could explain my reasoning.
But the interviewers gave me nothing the whole time. Occasionally a "great" and that's it, couldn't tell if they were nodding along or just staring at me.
Now I feel bad on top of it all because a friend referred me for this, so if it doesn't go well it feels like it reflects on her too, not just me.
So now I'm just sat here wondering if I actually have a shot at this or should just assume it's a no. Anyone gone from frontend heavy into full stack, is "good at the architecture bit but fumbled writing actual backend logic under pressure" something that's forgivable or is that just a straight no from most places?