J.P. Morgan Software Engineer interview experience

I got a HackerRank assessment with two coding problems that I had to finish within one hour, and I was given a few days to complete it. After that, I received a HireVue interview and then, later, an invitation to a Code for Good Hackathon.

Instead of a traditional superday, the hackathon became the final round. I did the hackathon and then waited while things went quiet—about two weeks later, I received an email rejection.

Overall it was an unusually shaped interview loop, and the outcome came relatively fast once the hackathon was done. My honest reflection was that the process felt