Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory·Software Engineer

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Software Engineer interview experience

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Bethesda, MDPosted May 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I sent in my application, I got the sense they moved quickly to decide whether it was worth interviewing me.

I had a short phone call with an employee to gauge interest, and then a couple of weeks later I was scheduled for interviews with two different groups. Each of those interviews lasted about two and a half hours and felt like a deep dive: the conversation started from my resume, then they went in-depth on projects I’d done.

It wasn’t an intense, technical grilling as much as it was a thorough walkthrough of my background—plus some effort to understand how my work matched what the teams needed. The part that threw me off wasn’t the interviews themselves; it was the silence afterward. I waited

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