JPMorganChase Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through the interview process for SDE 2 (Java/AWS) at JPMorgan Chase, and one of the strangest parts for me wasn’t even the interviews—it was what happened right after.

At some point, I received a system-generated rejection email, and it made the whole process feel abrupt in a way I hadn’t expected.

I didn’t share details about the technical format or which rounds I went through beyond that general process, but the timing and the automated nature of the rejection email stood out enough that I wanted to understand whether that was normal. Even if the interviews had been going fine, that kind of automated communication can change how the entire experience feels.

In the end, I didn’t get the outcome I wanted. My honest takeaway was that the interviews

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