Ascendion·Software Engineer

Ascendion Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

PunePosted Nov 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a pretty rough run with a recruiter touchpoint before landing in multiple technical conversations.

The first technical part included Java-focused discussion and then a coding task where I had to find repeated characters in a string and calculate counts, using Java stream concepts. The experience quickly soured—when I started working through the problem, the interviewer kept challenging my approach, telling me not to do it that way, then pushing back on my reasoning. I felt like I was being argued with more than evaluated, and it threw me off.

What really stood out was the way the conversation turned personal and abrasive. The interviewer asked why I left my previous organization even

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