Apptio·Software Engineer

Apptio Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Oct 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a fairly standard flow: a technical phone interview and then a coding-focused session that ended up feeling a lot less like an independent problem-solving exercise and more like I was being managed through it.

The interviewer was casual in tone at first, and early on they wanted details tied to my resume. They kept circling with questions that sounded like they couldn’t quite grasp how I’d done something, repeatedly drilling until I felt like I was being pushed to explain from the ground up.

Then the interview shifted into questions I couldn’t answer with great detail, and when I admitted I wasn’t fully well-versed, they steered me along instead of digging with me. The coding portion felt especially disruptive: for about the first 5 minutes the interviewer started interjecting about my approach

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