Costar Group Software Engineer interview experience

After phone and video behavioral steps, I reached an in-person power day where they went over my resume in depth and grilled me on experiences I’d listed.

The technical portion wasn’t elaborate, but it was still there—one interviewer asked about anagrams, and another round included a simple algorithm question. The part that affected me most wasn’t complexity, it was the human vibe: one interviewer seemed distracted and uninterested from the beginning, like they’d already checked out before I’d even had a chance to speak.

Timing also became a problem. My schedule got delayed multiple times,