Macquarie Group Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

London, EnglandPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I experienced a thorough, multi-round process with clear steps and a lot of emphasis on how I worked with other people.

It started with a senior manager discussion, then I did a psychometric assessment. After that came a peer programming session with a technical component, and then a separate behavioural interview.

The whole thing felt deliberate: they weren’t just checking whether I could solve problems, but also how I approached the work and whether I’d fit the team. The peer programming part made it especially real, because it pushed me to collaborate rather than just perform in isolation.

In the end, I didn’t get an offer. Even though it was rigorous, the overall feel was that the process was designed to

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