Leidos·Software Engineer

Leidos Software Engineer interview experience

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Morgantown, WVPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ended up with a more engineer-heavy experience where the focus was less on trick coding and more on whether I really understood the concepts.

The process kicked off with a call with a hiring manager, and then I had another conversation with a lead software architect. Instead of coding exercises, the questions leaned into software engineering fundamentals and language-specific concepts—C++ knowledge came up a lot. I talked through RAII and some C++17-style features like auto and optionals, and it felt like they cared about clarity over speed.

After that, I had an additional technical interview stage with multiple engineers. That part included both personal questions and technical discussion, and I remember that the interviewers

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