Macquarie Group Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Medium

Positive

SydneyPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into the process with a clear two-round structure.

The first round was on Zoom and lasted about 45 minutes, starting with project experience and then moving into a set of C++ quiz questions at a medium level. The second round was onsite and involved two manager interviews.

Overall, the experience felt fairly typical for an engineering role—enough technical depth to show they cared about programming knowledge, plus a managerial layer to assess how I’d operate in the organisation. I didn’t receive an offer.

My reflection was that it was a structured process and the expectations were reasonably straightforward while I was in the room, but the

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