CATERPILLAR·Software Engineer

CATERPILLAR Software Engineer interview experience

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Mossville, ILPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop started with a first conversation with someone in engineering.

We talked through my past experience and what I was interested in across different teams, and it felt like the goal was to understand where my background could realistically fit. After that, I moved into a second round with two engineers.

That next stage was behavioral, but it was also very structured. They were strict about using the STAR format, so I had to lay out the situation, the task, how I analyzed the problem, and what results came out of it. The questions were designed to see how I reasoned and reflected, not just whether I had a story that sounded good. The pressure for me wasn’t

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