Compass·Software Engineer

Compass Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

HyderābādPosted Jul 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started with a Karat-run first round, and the feeling immediately was that it wasn’t going to be a supportive exchange.

The process then pushed into another set of stages where the technical bar was presented through coding tasks, but the interaction style made it harder than it needed to be.

In the later technical portion, I got hit with a change in requirements midstream. After I finished a coding attempt, the interviewer claimed I’d misunderstood the problem, even though the function signature and the intent were right there in the prompt I was working from. The tone felt hostile and it derailed my ability to stay calm and reason through the scenario. What was most frustrating was that it didn’t feel like

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