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BlackBerry Software Engineer interview experience

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Raleigh, NCPosted Jan 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter touchpoint, I ended up doing a fairly classic flow: a phone or video-style conversation first, then a technical screen with a mix of short concept questions and some hands-on work.

In the early part, I was asked to talk through my background, and the questions leaned heavily on Java basics and general problem-solving. At one point I had to answer a set of questions about memory and C/C++-style fundamentals—things like how stack and heap differ, why headers show up the way they do, and command line arguments.

The technical portion felt more structured than I expected. I had rounds where the interviewer dug into my resume and projects and then followed up with a couple of coding exercises—sometimes more like short programs written on paper and sometimes as coding

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