Cengage·Software Engineer

Cengage Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Raleigh, NCPosted Apr 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a couple rounds with recruiters and HR, and then I eventually met with an architect.

The technical portion was fairly reasonable and mostly centered on walking through my experience and a few projects while the architect asked questions and probed lightly.

What threw me off was that nobody could tell me what exact job I was interviewing for at any point, which meant I couldn’t ask targeted questions about duties, team, or process. When I raised that concern, they explained they didn’t want to rule out candidates too early. The face-to-face sounded intense, but because I still didn’t have clarity about the opportunity, I ended up declining to continue. I didn’t receive an

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