Cengage·Software Engineer

Cengage Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

Farmington Hills, MIPosted Sep 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The recruiter reached out by email to set up a phone screen with the hiring manager and the tech lead.

The phone call was pretty laid back, and the technical questions were clearly connected to what was on my resume. I answered appropriately, and a couple days later the recruiter told me the interviewers were pleased and wanted to schedule an on-site.

The on-site was split into three sessions with different interviewers. The first was a hands-on coding interview where I solved sample problems in Java with TDD in mind, and the focus was more on code quality and decisions than on “gotcha” difficulty. The second session was a discussion of my technical background, including more philosophical

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