Los Alamos National Laboratory·Software Engineer

Los Alamos National Laboratory Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Medium

Negative

Los Alamos, NMPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and then followed a fairly timeline-driven process.

I got notified that I was selected and then had to provide references. After the background check was completed, I waited through the rest of that cycle only to be told there wasn’t budget, so they couldn’t hire me.

What made it especially frustrating was that the denial came after I’d already done the reference and background-check steps. I was given a clear “no budget” message, and it happened late enough that it felt like the system didn’t protect time for either side.

Even though the company may have valid internal reasons, the final communication landed as a hard stop after a lot of

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