Altair Engineering Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Aug 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview experience was three rounds long: two technical rounds and one HR round.

The project owner and the project manager ran the interview, and both of the technical sessions were centered on Java. There were also puzzles mixed into the questioning, which made the flow feel more like problem-solving than purely coding trivia.

The difficulty felt genuinely challenging. Between the Java focus and the inclusion of puzzles, I spent a lot of time thinking through how they wanted me to reason through the problems, not just recall facts.

By the time it finished, I still didn’t receive an offer. What I took away was that the team wasn’t only testing knowledge of Java, but

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