ACI Worldwide Software Engineer interview experience

First, I was assigned a task to write a program that would process a big log file, extract information from records in a specific format, and analyze it. I spent about three hours building and refining the solution, then sent it to the company.

After that, I had a remote Skype interview focused on walking through my stage-one solution. That discussion took roughly half an hour, and it felt like they were more interested in my reasoning and approach than just whether the program worked. The final step was in-office with a senior software architect, and that interview lasted about an