Apptio·Software Engineer

Apptio Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Jan 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the initial coordination went well, I had two 1:1 interviews with mid-level engineers.

Those conversations were friendly and challenging in the normal way, and I thought they went well. I then got called back for one more interview with a top-level engineer/manager.

That final interview was a completely different experience. I struggled a bit on a technical question, and the interviewer’s reaction was abrasive and condescending—especially to any question I asked. The tone stayed that way for the whole time. At one point I noticed him reading his phone while I was coding, and it made it feel like he wasn’t even fully present. I was close to ending the interview early, but I

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