Alarm·Software Engineer

Alarm Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

Vienna, VAPosted Jun 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was a campus interview where I talked about my background and got what felt like a very easy coding problem.

The people interviewing me were warm and made it less intimidating than I expected. After that, I moved into the HQ onsite, which felt much more like a deep dive: it stretched into a full day and included multiple rounds plus a writing test.

On the onsite, only one round involved actual coding. The rest was more about how I thought—behavior and system design style questions dominated, and it felt like they really wanted to hear my reasoning process rather than just the final answer. One interviewer kept pushing on the comparison question of why they should hire me instead of other

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