Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Software Engineer interview experience

That call was low-stress and mostly practical—benefits and campus talk—so I arrived with less anxiety than I expected.

The next step was an on-site that ran about a full day. I met with two teams and had four interviews total, each around an hour, often with two people in the room at once. The format was largely conversational and centered on my resume. They usually began with a quick introduction for their group, then moved into technical questions connected to what I’d written down. If I mentioned a project, I needed to be able to explain it end-to-end; if I listed a programming language