EEsri·Software Engineer

Esri Software Engineer interview experience

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KanadaPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview journey ended up being extremely time-consuming and leaned heavily into breadth.

I started with chats that included an external recruiter and then multiple rounds with teams across different locations. The schedule felt relentless: I had a first set of interviews early on, then a longer block with a UK team that included live coding challenges in both C# and C++, plus technical questions and discussion of my previous work. After that, I continued with interviews with a US team, and later there was an additional call with a top leader.

Altogether, it added up to something like 11.5 hours of interviewing, which matched the feeling of being put through many separate

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