Macquarie Group Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I did a PA screen that included an IQ test and a personality quiz, and then I had to move into system design.

Even though the topics were familiar, the way the interviews were run didn’t feel organized. Communication and planning seemed weak, and there wasn’t much structure—each interviewer showed up with their own set of questions and the flow never quite connected. By the time I got to system design, I was spending more energy adapting than thinking in a steady way.

I didn’t receive an offer. The difficulty was average, but the lack of process discipline definitely made it