Freshworks·Software Engineer

Freshworks Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

ChennaiPosted Feb 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews started off with the general sense that the bar was reasonable, but I quickly ran into a pattern with certain interviewers that made the experience hard to take seriously.

Even when the technical conversation should have moved toward problem solving, the focus became overly theoretical and definition-heavy, and the tone felt condescending.

In one coding discussion, the interviewer got stuck on definitions around linear vs. nonlinear structures and wouldn’t pivot into the actual question. I tried to connect my thinking to what I knew, but it felt like the conversation ignored correct direction and kept circling back to the exact wording of a technical description. In the architectural/Bar Raiser style round, I again felt the disconnect—there was an interviewer

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