Esri Software Engineer interview experience

That call lasted around an hour and focused on C++ fundamentals, digging into my past projects, and walking through a coding exercise using a shared editor/whiteboard. The tone felt conversational throughout, and what stood out was how much the interviewers cared about how I reasoned and how clearly I explained tradeoffs, not about producing a flawless answer quickly.

The final stage was a full day onsite at the Redlands campus. I went through roughly five 1-hour sessions with different engineers and managers, mixing coding, API and system design discussion, and questions around