JPMorganChase Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

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Plano, TXPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

One of the most memorable interviews I had started with the interviewer openly saying he wasn’t the usual person for the process and that the “normal” interviewer was too busy.

Then he told me he was a C++ person handling a Java role anyway, and that he would ask me something entirely different.

Instead of a standard software engineering problem, he went into a bizarre brain-teaser-style question about inflating balls to match a target amount of air. The way it was presented felt surreal and not really connected to the job, and I couldn’t figure out what the task was even trying to measure. I tried to engage with it, but after some time I realized I was stuck without any understanding of the goal.

When I admitted I didn’t know what we were doing or how it related

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