Altimetrik Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I was told I still needed a final discussion with the client company. That client step caught me off guard a bit because I wasn’t expecting a last-minute pivot after clearing the technical bar.

In that final discussion, the concern wasn’t about my technical fit so much as my compensation expectations. They seemed to believe the salary I set was too high, even though I had an equivalent offer in hand. What bothered me was that if the expectation mismatch was the real issue, it felt like it should have been surfaced earlier rather than after burning time during my notice period.

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