CATERPILLAR·Software Engineer

CATERPILLAR Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with two online assessment rounds before I even reached the interview.

The first one tested logical reasoning and CS fundamentals, and it also included HTML5 and JavaScript. After that, the second assessment round focused on two DSA questions.

When I finally got to the interview, it ended up being only one round, and they asked me mainly about my projects. That surprised me a bit compared to the earlier rounds that were heavily skills-testing—once it became the interview, the weight shifted to explaining what I’d built and how I thought through it.

I left with the feeling that they wanted a coherent story connecting my project work back to the fundamentals

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