Leonardo Software Engineer interview experience

After a brief introduction of myself and the engineers, the discussion immediately turned into my past work—especially projects from university—and what I’d done when I ran into difficult situations and needed to recover or adjust my approach.

It felt like an interview designed to understand how I think under pressure, not just whether I’d learned terminology. The difficulty was moderate: the questions weren’t trick riddles, but they required me to describe the context clearly and explain how I resolved problems rather than simply listing results. I left with the sense that they were