athenahealth·Software Engineer

athenahealth Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

Boston, MAPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed with an API-focused team through what was essentially a hiring-manager round, and it left me uneasy from the beginning.

The call started with questions about my applications to other teams, even though those topics were already discussed with HR. There was also a mention that candidates might get redirected to other teams, and honestly that set a discouraging tone before we even got into the technical conversation.

During the technical discussion, the interviewer came across as dismissive and seemed uninterested in the context behind decisions. When I discussed latency, the interviewer quickly labeled it “very high” without really exploring the constraints or the tradeoffs I was describing. Instead of a

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