Acumen·Software Engineer

Acumen Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Jan 2013 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got an email from HR to schedule a phone interview, and the whole thing felt fully technical right from the start.

They asked OOP concepts, mixed in a design question, and also went into database topics. They wanted to hear about my previous projects too, so it wasn’t just abstract questions—it was tied closely to what I’d done before. I managed to answer everything they threw at me, and then I was called in for an on-site interview.

The onsite lasted nearly three hours, and it was intense in a way that stuck with me. The time was spent on a mix of technical discussion and design thinking, and I realized I’d made a mistake on a design question midway through. Even though I felt like I understood most of

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