33M·Software Engineer

3M Software Engineer interview experience

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Positive

Saint Paul, MNPosted Oct 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and waited until HR reached out a couple weeks later.

That screening call was mostly about logistics—availability for relocation, earliest start date—and then it moved into my strengths and my experience with the languages and tools I’d worked with.

After that, I had a later telephone interview that involved multiple interviewers, where the questions leaned into definitions for the language used by the team, plus OOP and Agile concepts. The themes felt very consistent: explaining fundamentals clearly rather than just throwing out buzzwords.

Separately, I also did a pre-interview with a member of Corporate Research that went well, and she

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