First American Financial·Software Engineer

First American Financial Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted Jan 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an initial outreach, I ended up speaking with the software architect for a focused technical conversation.

The tone felt standard at first—he walked through what the team did, asked the usual background questions, and then moved quickly into a whiteboard exercise. I was asked to write pseudocode and explain my thinking while I did it, and once I finished we went back over the code and discussed what I’d written.

What stood out was how heavily the discussion stayed tied to the logic in front of me, even when I tried to answer with context from my experience. The questions felt tightly routed by the interviewer’s own approach, and it was harder to get the process to engage with my technical

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