CareerBuilder Software Engineer interview experience

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Norcross, GAPosted Feb 2012 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process felt genuinely impressive from the start.

I went through a sequence of puzzle-like programming questions that were meant to test how I thought, not whether I could rely on memorized answers.

There were three separate sessions, and each one had a surprisingly large group of people involved—about seven people per session. The questions were varied but all had that “solve this” energy, and they definitely made it feel a bit intense at first. Still, as the sessions went on, I realized the setup was there to make sure they were selecting for the kind of intelligence and reasoning they valued.

Even though the difficulty was very high and

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