CIBC·Software Engineer

CIBC Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Toronto, ONPosted Jan 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview had a tough, high-pressure feel right away.

The questions were genuinely hard, and it required coding on a whiteboard. It was the kind of setting where there wasn’t much room for recovery—if I didn’t do well, it was basically over, with no second chances.

What stood out most was how little they focused on my resume or cover letter, and how limited the conversation was about my broader experiences. It was mostly about executing under the constraints of the moment. I left feeling like the evaluation was very strict and binary, and that made it hard to build a narrative about myself beyond the coding.

I didn’t get an offer, and the part

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