Fannie Mae·Software Engineer

Fannie Mae Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Washington, DCPosted Aug 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The recruiter got things moving and I went into a phone screen with a brief overview of the company before the interviewer started grilling me on AWS.

The issue was that the questions felt oddly specific and very internal—more like I was expected to recite the nitty-gritty mechanics of how AWS works rather than talk about how I’d used it to solve a customer-facing problem.

The format also threw me off. It didn’t feel like a conversation where they were trying to understand my experience; it felt like a checklist being read out, and I kept getting shut down when I couldn’t answer obscure details they asked for. When I did try to respond, the tone came across as condescending, and it made it hard to recover or steer the discussion back to my

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