Aristocrat Software Engineer interview experience

Even before the on-site work started, the biggest mismatch was that they wanted skills that weren’t emphasized during the phone screening.

They also compressed what sounded like a multi-day process into a single, exhausting day. Most of that day was a skills assessment followed by a panel presentation and then a grilling of what they’d just evaluated. On top of the interview intensity, the travel schedule was brutal—starting extremely early and running until late evening, with flight timing that just didn’t seem convenient.

Even though the process was framed as an assessment of my fit, it