Bristlecone·Software Engineer

Bristlecone Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted Oct 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first round started off with an interviewer who seemed more professional, and I thought the process would be straightforward.

But the later round experience was completely different—there was a sense the interviewer wasn’t genuinely interested in what I was saying, and it felt like the goal was to reject rather than evaluate.

In that later round, I felt pushed into a dynamic where I’d give a reasonable approach and then be told it was wrong, even when the interviewer’s expectations seemed inconsistent. One time, I offered a generic solution, and the response was that the “correct” answer involved hardcoding values. It also felt like the interviewer had simply pulled the questions from somewhere and was moving

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