Alarm·Software Engineer

Alarm Software Engineer interview experience

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Positive

United StatesPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ended up in a pretty multi-stage process that felt more “vibe” than deep technical evaluation.

It started with a recruiter conversation where we covered my resume and work history, and I also got a brief sense of what they cared about in the role. From there, the next step was a technical interview that honestly didn’t match my background very well—it felt rigid and oddly disconnected, and the interviewer repeatedly asked about things that were already clearly on my resume.

The behavioral questions in that technical round came across as very scripted and generic, and it was frustrating because when I tried to follow up about my projects or team context, the interviewer seemed confused

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