Bell Software Engineer interview experience

The hiring manager didn’t even look at my resume, and instead kept talking about himself—what he’d done before and even that he was trying to get out of software. He spoke negatively about other teams he worked with.

The actual questions didn’t really connect to my experience. They were mostly about tools, plus a couple of prompts like “tell me about a time,” and the whole thing felt off because it wasn’t designed to evaluate me fairly.

I didn’t get an offer, and I left with the clear sense that I couldn’t get a normal read on the process or the role. My honest reflection was that even if I