Actalent·Software Engineer

Actalent Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Toronto, ONPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a recruiter interaction where they zeroed in on my experience with .NET and Angular.

Before anything else, they asked for character references and even arranged for their contact with my references ahead of an exam, which added a layer of formality I wasn’t expecting.

Later, I took an assessment that was specifically in ASP.NET Web Forms. I hadn’t touched it in about a decade, and while I tried to work through it, I couldn’t recall enough to do well on the test, so I ended up failing the exam.

What really stood out was what happened the same day after I received the results. One of my references reached out to tell me they got an email canceling the appointment and offering

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