Guardian Life Software Engineer interview experience

I made it deep into the sequence—there were multiple rounds and by the time I was waiting for the next one, the recruiter had already emailed that they were going to pass, which sounded like good news.

But the feedback didn’t line up with what I’d been told right before that final step. The interview itself also felt off from the start: instead of setting a normal interview tone, the interviewer basically told me to go ahead without the usual “tell me about yourself” style opening. Even the discussion around their agile transformation work felt like it wasn’t grounded in real knowledge of