Compass·Software Engineer

Compass Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

New York, NYPosted Sep 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started like a typical cadence—HR screen, then a technical screen, then an onsite—but it quickly turned into something harder to predict.

The early calls went smoothly, and some of the onsite interviewers were clearly friendly and trying to keep things moving. One interviewer was genuinely excellent and made the session feel productive.

Then I ran into a manager session that was off in a different way: it didn’t follow my background at all and instead turned into a complex technical question. The rest of the onsite also became confusing because clarifying questions felt ignored; when I asked for alignment on the problem or tried to walk through my approach, the interviewer often responded without actually engaging. The silence

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