Costar Group·Software Engineer

Costar Group Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Nov 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My least pleasant experience started with an intense technical screening.

I got grilled on a massive number of C# and SQL questions in a very short window, and none of it felt tied to the specific experience they said they wanted. I missed a few and was told I didn’t know how to code, which didn’t line up with my understanding of what I’d been matched to.

Later, I saw a different flavor of “hard” that still felt disconnected: a process where the onsite work involved adding code to an existing web API application, followed by design and web API questions, and then manager conversations that stayed more general. The overall theme was heavier on design principles and

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