Eli Lilly and Company Software Engineer interview experience

At the start, the interviewer explicitly said they expected my answers in the STAR format, so I framed my stories around situation, task, action, and result.

The questions themselves felt like standard behavioral prompts, and the whole session stayed focused on that single mode of evaluation rather than branching into technical content or extra assessments. The process was fairly straightforward in structure, and it left me with a clear sense that they were only evaluating how I communicate and handle past experiences.

I didn’t receive an offer, and my honest reflection was that the STAR