Alarm·Software Engineer

Alarm Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Apr 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first real step for me was a longer online assessment through HackerRank.

For me, it was over two hours, and it felt like a serious gate before I even reached live conversations.

When I encountered a similar assessment later, it was even more intense: I was given three problems to complete in about an hour and a half, and the condition was blunt—if I didn’t pass every single one, they wouldn’t extend an offer. That “all-or-nothing” pressure changed how I approached the coding time, because there wasn’t room to trade off completeness for speed.

I didn’t receive an offer, and what stayed with me was how much weight they put on the timed coding portion. It felt like

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