Leidos·Software Engineer

Leidos Software Engineer interview experience

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Hard

Negative

Washington, DCPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an interview process that leaned hard on technical evaluation, and it felt challenging right away.

The technical interview itself was described to me as hard but fair, and I remember settling into a conversation that felt like it was centered on foundational correctness. Still, I could tell they were pushing for depth.

At some point the process shifted into HR/psychometric territory. That shift was what really derailed the experience for me: the questions felt like they were pulled from generic examples rather than anything connected to the role, and a few prompts weren’t relevant at all to what we’d been discussing. It made me feel like the evaluation was split between two different

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