Brooksource·Software Engineer

Brooksource Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Negative

Vienna, VAPosted Sep 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews started like they were going to go somewhere—there was a casual recruiter phone screen, and if that went well I moved into a follow-up Zoom or recruiter-driven process.

Each time, the recruiter gave the impression I’d stay on file and hear back if more opportunities opened.

The interviews themselves weren’t the issue so much as what happened after. After the final conversations, I got silence. I followed up multiple times, and there was no meaningful response, no clear rejection, and no updates about where I stood. In one situation I even saw the job had been filled via a LinkedIn notification, which made the lack of communication feel especially jarring.

Overall, the hardest part wasn’t the difficulty of the technical questions—it was the way the process

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