AT&T·Software Engineer

AT&T Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into a deeper panel interview for the Software Engineer role and it focused on distributed-systems depth and real-world problem solving.

Panel interview — I was asked about Kafka architecture, worked through complex SQL queries, and covered cloud concepts like scalability and deployment; the panel also tested system design thinking and hands-on experience with distributed systems and microservices via real-time scenarios.

Outcome: I didn’t get an offer, and my takeaway is that this stage expected substantive distributed-systems knowledge, not just basic coding.

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