Dell Technologies Software Engineer interview experience

The interview was professional and friendly, and the interviewer spent time understanding not only what I knew technically, but also how I approached problems. A big part of the conversation was me explaining my reasoning and walking through my thought process step by step.

They asked me to discuss different approaches, not just settle on the first idea. That emphasis on how I reasoned made the technical parts feel less like a pure recall test and more like a collaboration around problem-solving. The questions were framed in a way that let me talk through tradeoffs and why I’d pick one