Burns & McDonnell Software Engineer interview experience

That first step was meant to screen for how I think through engineering-style problems even before any deeper conversation.

After the aptitude portion, I went into a technical round along with an HR round. The technical interview was based wholly on my internship experience—what I had learned and what I’d worked on—so the focus was tightly connected to my past rather than abstract theory.

The process landed as average difficulty overall. I felt like the internship-based angle made it easier to anchor my answers, since I could talk directly about what I did and learned. By the time the HR