ADTRAN Software Engineer interview experience

It was only three rounds of interviewing, and I cleared the first two. The third round went well too, so I felt like things were tracking forward.

Then something major came up that completely changed the situation: I learned that the job required being in Bangalore for the first 8–10 months. That wasn’t something that had been communicated to me beforehand, and it clashed directly with what I’d understood from the job description. It cost me time—literal days of my schedule—because I’d already invested in moving through the process.

I declined at the end of the last round because the role