Macquarie Group Software Engineer interview experience

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Makati CityPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My timeline was about a month end to end, and it felt intense from the start.

I went through a PA exam as part of the process, and depending on the role there were about two to three interviews overall.

The interviews themselves included programming problems that ran roughly an hour to an hour and a half, and they were framed around core Java plus microservices and web services. I spoke with multiple interviewers in that stage—usually a couple of people at a time—and cloud experience was a nice-to-have rather than strictly required.

At the end I didn’t receive an offer, and overall it felt like a very difficult process, mostly because the PA exam added pressure and

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