CATERPILLAR·Software Engineer

CATERPILLAR Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Aug 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter-style step, I ended up in a pretty intense behavioral interview that lasted about an hour.

The flow was very STAR-focused, and it felt like most of the questions were drawn from my resume and walked through as structured situations—around seven questions total. I could tell the goal was consistency in how I framed context, actions, and results, but having so many STAR prompts in a single block made it mentally tiring.

Even though the interviewers were friendly and generally nice to talk to, I remember thinking an hour-long behavioral session like that was just hard to sustain. By the end, I felt like I’d answered clearly, but the format itself left little room to reset or expand

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