Alten Software Engineer interview experience

The business/manager rounds were pretty centered on how I’d worked before and how I thought about my experience—more behavioral in style. The technical interview then switched gears: it included a couple of more theory-leaning questions plus coding exercises, and I had to complete everything within about an hour.

The coding portion felt time-boxed and surprisingly straightforward, and what threw me off was the pacing. I kept answering and then realized I didn’t actually get extra time to elaborate on the theory—so the most important part was finishing the exercises rather than spending too