Corning·Software Engineer

Corning Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Medium

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Fairport, NYPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for the Software Engineer role with an average-difficulty exercise that involved debugging unfamiliar code and proposing improvements.

Take-home / coding task — I received a ZIP file with broken C++ code, had a couple of days to fix issues, and was asked to improve the approach for unoptimized behavior.
Follow-up interviews — The available details focus on the task setup and expectations rather than additional round specifics. Outcome: No offer, and the takeaway was to expect a practical code-correction and performance-improvement mindset, not just conceptual Q&A.

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