Compass·Software Engineer

Compass Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted May 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a recruiter call followed by an initial screen and panel interviews, and I kept feeling unsure about what they actually wanted from me.

Most of the interviews were more conversational than technical, except for one system design round.

That mismatch in focus was the main red flag for me. I also couldn’t shake the impression that the interview set was broad enough to be a poor signal of engineering skill, and by the end it felt like something other than a typical product/tech process.

When the recruiter got back to me, the feedback was generic—people seemed to like me, but I wasn’t moving forward. In the end, I left thinking the process didn’t give a clear, consistent picture of evaluation, and that made the rejection feel a

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