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JLR Software Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted Aug 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview journey started with an overall conversation that leaned into my placement background and where I’d studied.

At first it felt like a normal, friendly chat, but things turned chaotic fast. I ended up getting heated cooking something related to gnocchi—when the saucepan got far too hot, the sauce started erupting and the whole moment basically derailed the interview and ended it there.

Even though my session derailed in a very unexpected way, I later learned that this kind of multi-part format was how the process was often run for similar programs. Typically it started with quick “settling in” questions like why JLR, followed by a presentation on a technical project I’d done, where the interviewer

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