Acuity Brands Software Engineer interview experience

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Conyers, GAPosted Mar 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I showed up for what was supposed to be a normal panel interview, but the day felt chaotic and mismatched from the start.

The reception area and the room setup didn’t feel welcoming, and after meeting with managers, I quickly realized they weren’t aligned on what they were actually trying to hire for. The conversation drifted into vague buzzwords and ideas about changing culture and deployment rather than a clear engineering role.

The interview itself ran for hours, but I only got one concrete technical question the whole time—something about what I liked about PowerShell. The rest was a mix of trying to explain broad concepts like “tell us about the cloud,” plus questions like why I wanted to work there. I

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