Costar Group·Software Engineer

Costar Group Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Arlington, VAPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I kicked things off with a recruiter call focused on my resume, and then I had a short Zoom conversation that followed pretty quickly.

The interview ended up being unusually light on technical content—there weren’t any real technical questions—and instead it stayed on the resume background and the story behind my experience.

It felt pretty chill from start to finish, and I walked away thinking the bar was more about clarity and fit than about coding or specific problem solving. I didn’t get the sense they were trying to evaluate “can you solve this in the moment,” but more “does your background match what we’re looking for.” That made the whole process feel easygoing, even though I was still waiting to see where it would

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