Hive (CA)·Software Engineer

Hive (CA) Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into my interviews expecting a normal virtual process, but the tone was off almost immediately.

Several interviewers arrived late, and at least one didn’t even turn on the camera preview. It gave me the impression they weren’t fully present, and the whole session felt rushed toward the end of each block because people were already trying to get to their next meeting.

One moment really stuck with me: I solved a problem optimally because I’d done something similar years earlier. But the interviewer clearly didn’t understand my approach, and it didn’t feel like I was being evaluated on the quality of my reasoning—it felt like the communication failed before we ever really

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