Discover Software Engineer interview experience

It honestly felt repetitive and very “corporate,” and I didn’t see much in the way of skill-based questioning during the process. Instead, I kept getting pulled into a style of interview that didn’t really test how I’d execute the work.

At the end, there was a Java trivia moment that didn’t feel grounded in real engineering scenarios. The interviewer also didn’t seem to understand what a test case and use case really mean in practice. There were also concerns for me around how they talked about engineering cadence—things like grooming, planning, and sizing didn’t come across as something the