ADTRAN Software Engineer interview experience

I didn’t have the sense that it was overly scripted; the conversations felt grounded in my resume and the kinds of coursework I’d done, with interviewers probing for whether my background matched the technical work.

Most of what I talked through leaned technical and practical. At one point, I got asked to solve something like FIFO code and I made a mistake where my nerves got the better of me, even though the prompt itself wasn’t outrageous. There were also questions on electrical engineering concepts like circuits, plus some basic programming skills. Even when the interview didn’t go my