Leidos·Software Engineer

Leidos Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted Jan 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started with a normal technical screening by phone, and then I moved into a final round where the evaluation included actual coding.

The process felt deliberate: once I got to the live portion, I was working through a coding challenge environment where the technical questions ran deep enough to make me really think about correctness and how I explained my approach.

What stood out was that they weren’t completely locked into a single attempt—when I made adjustments on my answers in the later part, I was allowed to change course and refine. That made the experience less punishing and more like they wanted to see my problem-solving under pressure instead of catching a one-time mistake. In another similar structure I went

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