Altair Engineering Software Engineer interview experience

It was fairly straightforward, and what stood out was that they cared more about hands-on familiarity with the tools I’d be using than about digging deep into advanced algorithms or complex data-structure theory. Since the role was described as C++ development using Visual Studio, the questions were centered on my working knowledge of that environment.

It didn’t feel like an intense grilling. I came away feeling like they were mainly checking whether I could comfortably operate in the day-to-day technical stack. The process ended without an offer, but the whole thing was light in difficulty