Harness·Software Engineer

Harness Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Medium

Negative

CanadaPosted May 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got far enough that it turned into an offer situation, but the details around it made the experience feel unstable.

The recruiter wasn’t fully on top of what each interview round covered, and even system design was described in a confusing way—something that didn’t match how it was actually presented during the process.

When the offer came through, it was only verbal. I was told they couldn’t share it in writing, and the timeline kept shrinking: I was first given a few weeks before expiry, then it was reduced to just a few days shortly after. When I asked to renegotiate the offer terms, the recruiter stopped responding.

By the end, I wasn’t just disappointed about missing out—I felt stuck in limbo, with

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