DDEKA Research & Development·Software Engineer

DEKA Research & Development Software Engineer interview experience

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Manchester, NHPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter-stage conversation, I later had a direct technical phone call with my hiring manager.

It wasn’t a generic intro chat—it went straight into technical fundamentals like pass-by-reference vs pass-by-value, stack vs heap memory, and object-oriented programming. I remember feeling like I was being tested for real fluency rather than familiarity.

A week or so later I went in person. They covered travel expenses, and the interview was built around a whiteboard. I worked through pseudo code related to bit and string manipulation, and then I was asked to walk through my senior design project. There was also a conceptual object-oriented programming question that I didn’t handle

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