Macquarie Group Software Engineer interview experience

In that technical interview, they’d give me existing code and ask me to figure out what the result would be, essentially testing my ability to read and reason about code quickly.

After that, there was a final face-to-face interview. It felt like the early technical part was intentionally designed to check fundamentals—understanding the behaviour of code as written—before moving on to broader evaluation.

I didn’t receive an offer. My reflection was that the live coding and reasoning piece was a clear theme, and I could tell exactly what they were assessing, but I didn’t hit the standard they