Attentive·Software Engineer

Attentive Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into the process for a backend position feeling like things were tracking well.

I was told I did really well, and I was scheduled for an onsite. What surprised me was that, during the onsite, I was asked to solve a programming problem in a language I hadn’t claimed experience with, and it wasn’t even reflected in the job description.

Despite that mismatch, I still received feedback that I did well overall, with the main exception being one interview. That said, the end result wasn’t a simple yes or no—it was that I was down-leveled.

So even though the tone throughout sounded positive, the decision landed lower than what I expected. I ended up without an offer, and I

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