Compass·Software Engineer

Compass Software Engineer interview experience

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Bellevue, WAPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a fairly straightforward, low-stress loop that still tested multiple things end to end.

After a recruiter touchpoint, I had a technical screen focused on debugging, then an onsite that felt like three rounds stacked together: a coding/DSA-style task, engineering-focused questioning, and then another debugging round where I was handed a buggy script to fix.

What stood out to me was the debugging texture and how the tooling affected it. In my phone stage I was told I could choose between Java or Python, but once I hit the onsite there was a miscommunication about the languages allowed, and that threw me off for a moment. The later debugging round revolved around an email/contact

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