Grid Dynamics Software Engineer interview experience

Even though I was initially contacted for a role that sounded like C++, the coding assessment ended up being done in Python with an evaluator who didn’t seem familiar with C++.

After the final technical round, I got rejected with a critique that focused more on perceived preferences—how I seemed to like development more than devops or CI/CD—and it suggested they’d direct me elsewhere if a different type of opening appeared, like robotics. I walked away feeling like the evaluation reflected a mismatch in what they thought the role required versus what the assessment actually measured. It