Crowdstrike·Software Engineer

Crowdstrike Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

GermanyPosted Sep 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I spent three full days on an assignment and interviews that ultimately didn’t feel aligned with the skills they said they were looking for.

I worked through the coding task and implemented it in C, and the process made it sound like that was acceptable—there was positive feedback about the assignment and even about my performance during the interviews. The confusing part came later when I was rejected based on what they described as weak C++ skills.

What threw me off most was the inconsistency: they allowed me to code the assignment in pure C within the time constraints, then used a short conversation to decide the rejection based on C++ ability. I never really got a satisfying explanation for how that decision fit the earlier

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