International Software Engineer interview experience

It started with an HR screening phone call focused on general job fit, salary expectations, and start date. After that, I moved into a manager panel interview, and it all stayed pretty standard in the way the conversations were framed.

What stood out to me was the silence afterward. It took another couple of weeks to hear back, and the message I received was a templated rejection. Even though the interviews themselves weren’t described as especially hard, the long overall timeline and the slow, cookie-cutter follow-up made the whole thing feel unnecessarily drawn out.

I never got an offer,