Esri Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I was set up for an onsite interview, and that’s where the tone shifted from normal screening into something that felt more political and uncertain.

During the interviews, I ran into the kind of experience where the company seemed to frame themselves as the only ones doing great work, and that carried into how interactions felt. In a separate but similarly disappointing run, I watched the process become contradictory: I was told C++ wouldn’t be a primary focus, only to be drilled on C++ immediately after. I also faced a technical round that leaned into very specific debugging/QA