First American Financial·Software Engineer

First American Financial Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

London, EnglandPosted Dec 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I walked into the process feeling like it would be straightforward, but it quickly turned messy.

I attended based on an initial role fit expectation, but the questions I got in person didn’t match the advertised T-SQL developer direction—they drifted into database admin territory. It made the whole day feel misaligned, and I remember being especially frustrated because I’d taken leave specifically to be there.

Another part that threw me off was the technical interviewer experience itself. I had an on-site where the interviewer wasn’t very technical and even looked things up while asking questions, which made the conversation feel unreliable. The questioning also got repetitive—there was

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