Attentive·Software Engineer

Attentive Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

New York, NYPosted Mar 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The interview felt like a bid to prove intelligence rather than a mutual exchange.

Multiple interview rounds ended with the same pattern: the process required very specific answers, but the interviewers wouldn’t give any real hints about what they were looking for.

It created this frustrating dynamic where it felt like I had to read their mind to match their expectations. I also never received any follow-up or feedback afterward, even after spending hours in the process.

I didn’t get an offer, and what stuck with me was the sense that they behaved as if they were much more important than they actually had to be—while still delivering an experience that didn’t feel fair or

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