just went through the Anthem/Elevance online assessment and technical phone screen for a software engineer role (somewhere between mid-level and senior, they were a bit flexible on the level). writing this up because i had trouble finding recent info before i went in.
the online assessment came first. two coding problems, 90 minutes total. platform was HackerRank. problems were what i'd call solid mediums, one was array/string manipulation and the other involved trees. no trick questions, no insane edge cases that require knowing some obscure algorithm. if you're comfortable with LeetCode mediums you'll be fine. i think i scored around 85% and moved forward without any drama.
then the technical phone screen. one coding problem with a recruiter and then an engineer joining. the engineer asked the coding question live in a shared environment (coderpad). also medium difficulty. this one had a follow-up where they asked about time/space complexity and then asked me to optimize my initial solution. that follow-up is important. they were clearly evaluating whether you understand performance tradeoffs, not just whether you can produce code that runs.
some things that seemed to matter: talking through your approach before typing, even briefly catching edge cases yourself before they pointed them out knowing your complexity and being able to improve it not getting rattled when they asked clarifying questions mid-solve (this felt like part of the eval)
things that did not seem to matter: knowing specific java/python libraries by heart using any particular language (i used python, seems fine) having the most elegant solution vs. a correct, clear one
the question types lean toward general data structures: arrays, strings, graphs, trees. i didn't see any dynamic programming. didn't see anything healthcare-specific in the coding rounds, that stuff shows up in the system design.
overall the difficulty is calibrated for a working software engineer, not someone grinding 500 LeetCode problems. reasonable.