HCSS Software Engineer interview experience (2014)

HCSS Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Oct 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was asked to take an online timed math assessment that included word problems, and I wasn’t really warned about what the test would demand—at least not in a way that helped me set up.

I made it through with time to spare, but the questions themselves felt badly worded and ambiguous. Some of them were presented with units and then later referred to the same idea in a way that made me wonder whether they wanted the final number in the original units or a converted value.

The test scored immediately, and very quickly it informed me that I didn’t meet the minimum requirement. There wasn’t any opportunity to clarify how I interpreted the problems or to explain my approach—just a fast pass/fail based on the single number they expected.

What stuck with me was how the test

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HCSS Software Engineer interview experience

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