ING·Software Engineer

ING Software Engineer interview experience

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Manila, ManilaPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an initial HR call, I went into a technical interview that was much more intense than I expected.

The format was a three-person panel, and it quickly turned into a deep dive on Java fundamentals and how I reason about code. We covered things like OOP, Java 8+ topics, functional programming concepts, and the Spring and persistence side, including JPA/Hibernate. There was also live problem solving: one coding question without an IDE, and we shifted into a more interactive, pair-programming style.

Time pressure hit me harder than the technical content itself. I extended beyond the allotted time while working through the live coding, and it started to feel like my assessment was unfairly

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