John Deere Software Engineer interview experience

Instead of deep dives, they asked a handful of questions that centered on how I worked with people and how I communicated with teammates from different backgrounds. The whole flow started by giving me space to tell my story and who I was.

From there, it followed an interview style that leaned into STAR-style behavioral answering, even when the questions weren’t deeply technical. It wasn’t about having the perfect “answer,” so much as making my thought process and collaboration approach easy to understand.

The difficulty felt average overall, and the experience was hard to judge from my