Hive (CA)·Software Engineer

Hive (CA) Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

FrancePosted Nov 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

For the new grad software engineer position, I only had a single interview, and it didn’t match the usual leetcode expectation.

Instead of something clearly defined, I was given an overly ambiguous coding question that left a lot of gaps about what the interviewer actually wanted.

The difficulty was described as difficult, and that’s partly why it felt so frustrating—ambiguity makes it harder to show problem-solving when you can’t be sure what success looks like. Even though the scheduling moved fairly quickly, the overall interaction left a bad taste.

I didn’t get an offer. Looking back, the biggest issue wasn’t just the challenge level—it was how unclear the question felt, which made it hard to perform in a way

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