DISH·Software Engineer

DISH Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Denver, COPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a recruiter call first, then shortly after I met the hiring manager.

The recruiter stage was fine, but the hiring-manager interview completely threw me off. The session felt highly disorganized and unprofessional, and the manager basically read from a script instead of engaging with what I was saying.

What made it worse was that I wasn’t prepared for live coding. The interview included a request to pull up an IDE, but I hadn’t been told that was coming. My laptop was brand new, and I couldn’t log into the online environment in time, which immediately made me feel behind. I also felt like my responses weren’t really being processed—she would often ignore the

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