Benchling·Software Engineer

Benchling Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Oct 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I kicked things off with a setup that felt more like a direct jump to testing than a normal screening.

There wasn’t a recruiter call, and the process went straight to a timed HackerRank test with two problems and an execution time limit. The test cases covered edge cases pretty heavily, so I needed the full 90 minutes to finish.

After completing it, they scheduled a video technical screen. Part of that time felt consumed by the interviewer giving background on the company and role, which meant less time to actually code and debug. Even after I completed the exercise, I received a generic rejection message stating that the needs didn’t align with my strengths. The whole experience left me

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