Alarm·Software Engineer

Alarm Software Engineer interview experience

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McLean, VAPosted Jun 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Recruiter outreach kicked everything off with an initial HR-style screening call, and then the process moved toward on-site interviews at the company’s HQ.

For me, it was a pre-COVID format with an in-person day that included multiple separate conversations with engineers—about four onsite interviews, each lasting around an hour, plus lunch.

Across the onsite, the interviews mixed technical evaluation with discussion of my interests and my tech background. The technical side didn’t feel centered on one specific programming language; it was more about structures and how I approached architecture-level thinking. I also remember feeling that a lot of the assessment came from dialogue—how I framed problems and explained tradeoffs—rather than just

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