CATERPILLAR·Software Engineer

CATERPILLAR Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Oct 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I applied for SWE-1 through the Caterpillar process in Bangalore, my timeline started with two online assessments.

One part was CS fundamentals in MCQ form covering topics like DSA, DBMS, OS, and computer networks, plus aptitude. The other part was more hands-on: two LeetCode-medium style coding problems.

A week or so later I sat for a technical interview that dug into what I’d listed—resume projects, the specific skills I claimed, and some coding along with questions about AWS. The final stage was a combined technical and behavioral round. That one felt more like a conversation: they asked about my domain interest, why I cared about the company, and then the usual HR-style questions to understand how

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