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Discover Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Aug 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a recruiter getting in touch, and then I jumped straight into video-style interviews.

The technical round felt more like a verbal quiz than an engineering conversation. I talked through my understanding of React, Spring Boot, and AWS, but there was no real coding and the questions felt like they were pulled from generic material rather than tied to the job.

On top of that, I had a couple of technical/video meetings where the interviewer experience was rough. One person didn’t even have the camera on and was distracted enough that it was hard to tell whether the questions were being followed. Another tech lead ended up running what felt like an exam: I shared my screen, opened

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