AT&T·Software Engineer

AT&T Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

LodPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The hardest part of the process was the HackerRank test, which took about three and a half hours and stayed pretty intense the whole way through.

I saw a mix of coding questions in a LeetCode style and even a prompting-style question. The breakdown felt like a step up in difficulty: a couple were easy, some were medium-to-hard, and the prompting question landed in the medium range.

What surprised me was how much the questions leaned into tricky formulation and more complex thinking than I expected—especially given how the problems were written. Some of the tasks felt odd at first glance, but then made more sense once I figured out what they were really asking.

After that online test, I progressed to the next stages: a homework

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