Ericsson·Software Engineer

Ericsson Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a technical interview centered on telecom and systems concepts, where the questions were more about explaining differences between technologies than writing lots of code.

Resume/English discussion — A conversation in English about technical fundamentals.
Technical topic round — Questions included 4G vs 5G and TCP vs UDP, plus practical container/VM reasoning like Virtual Machines vs Docker and why Docker is used.
Cloud/virtualization focus (parallel version of the journey) — Another technical discussion centered on cloud computing and virtual machines. Outcome: I didn’t move forward; the takeaway was to be sharp on system/telecom fundamentals and articulate trade-offs clearly.

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