ACI Worldwide Software Engineer interview experience

First there was a ninety-minute coding challenge, followed by a two-hour interview, and then an additional one-hour HR interview. I did pass the coding challenge, but I didn’t make it past the technical interview that followed.

The technical phase was the one that tripped me up, and I could feel during the process that I wasn’t as prepared as I needed to be at the time. Because it was a multi-hour, multi-stage structure, the gaps in my preparation showed more clearly than they might have in a shorter interview.

I didn’t get an offer, and the reflection I’m stuck with is that passing the