Costar Group·Software Engineer

Costar Group Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Richmond, VAPosted Apr 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had an interview where the interviewer was nice, but the way the questions were asked felt indirect and a little condescending.

Even though I believed I was qualified on paper, I got genuinely confused by some of the questions and couldn’t always figure out what they were aiming for.

I left feeling disappointed—not only about the conversation, but also about the company overall. It felt like the questioning style didn’t let me demonstrate what I knew, and it didn’t help that my understanding of the prompts kept slipping.

The difficulty was marked as difficult, and I felt that in the sense that I was second-guessing what the interviewer wanted instead of confidently applying my knowledge. I didn’t hear great things,

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