GGeneral Mills·Software Engineer

General Mills Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

MumbaiPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first contact in the process was a recruiter call that quickly shifted in a way I didn’t expect.

The recruiter asked very intrusive personal questions, including what my spouse does, what my parents do, and how many kids I have. Then the conversation turned toward my salary history.

What felt especially off was that it turned into an argument about my salary history without giving any clear details about the role itself or the salary range they were targeting. The whole exchange felt uncomfortable and discriminatory to me, and it didn’t seem connected to assessing my fit for the engineering work.

Given how early that went wrong, I didn’t make it past that stage and ended up without an

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