Fannie Mae Software Engineer interview experience

The questions were mostly basic conceptual, and the manager seemed satisfied with how I answered.

A week or so later, I received an email inviting me to schedule a second round. The scheduling process was oddly restrictive: they only provided two sequential dates, with less than 48 hours’ notice before the first one. I marked myself unavailable for both dates, and then waited.

Three weeks later, I received a rejection. It wasn’t that the interview itself felt brutal—it was more that I got stuck on logistics they controlled, so the process ended before I could prove myself in another