CATERPILLAR·Software Engineer

CATERPILLAR Software Engineer interview experience

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Peoria, ILPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Throughout my interview, they leaned heavily on STAR-based behavioral questions to understand how I processed questions and formed answers.

The behavioral portion came first, and it was framed to pull out my thinking process, not just the end result.

After that, they asked some technical questions that connected to broader concepts I’d learned as a mechanical engineer. It wasn’t presented as narrow coding, but more like checking whether I understood fundamentals and could apply that knowledge.

I didn’t receive an offer. The experience itself felt structured and fairly rigorous, and my honest reflection was that the behavioral expectations were clear, but switching into the broader technical concepts was where I felt the most

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