CATERPILLAR·Software Engineer

CATERPILLAR Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Nov 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview process landed in three rounds and started with a screening call.

It lasted about thirty minutes and felt normal at first—until one interviewer kept circling back to why I was working on CPT instead of focusing on my experience in a straightforward way. The round still followed a screening-style conversation, but that question dominated more than it should have.

Next came a HackerRank technical assessment with a medium-level coding problem. I was able to solve it cleanly and even scored perfectly, so that round felt like it went well. The last step was a one-on-one technical interview with the same interviewer from screening. It turned into a

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