AAlcoa·Software Engineer

Alcoa Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Positive

United StatesPosted Sep 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was interviewed on the spot at an engineering career fair, and then they scheduled two more phone interviews with hiring managers.

The interviews themselves were pretty standard, focused on the usual questions you’d expect—my background, how I think, and how I handled different topics.

I remember feeling nervous during the phone interviews, and I had trouble coming across exactly as I would have preferred. There was also a timing issue that made me anxious: there was a one-hour time difference, so I was expecting a call an hour earlier.

I didn’t receive an offer. Even though the content of the interviews felt routine, the nerves and the time mismatch made the process feel more stressful than it should have been, and

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