athenahealth·Software Engineer

athenahealth Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Austin, TXPosted Oct 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

It began with a one-hour online screening, then I waited about three weeks before they reached back out to schedule an on-site.

The on-site technical portion was a puzzle about balls being picked off a grid and then figuring out a “gravity” function. I was asked to bring a laptop, but I wasn’t told what language or environment to set up, which immediately made the whole start feel a bit unstructured.

The interviewer pulled me into a whiteboard discussion and kept interrupting while I tried to reason through the problem—asking questions, making assumptions, and correcting me. My time was tight overall: I was expected to define scope, abstract requirements and functions, talk through the approach, handle the

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