Macquarie Group Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

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Negative

SydneyPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My start was through an external job agent screening, followed by an internal recruiter screening.

The external recruiter explained useful details about what to expect, and I remember the interview being short and tightly timed. The internal interviewer was higher up in the org, and the whole conversation felt like it moved by quickly—there was even a point where it seemed the interviewer had enough information and ended it around the 15-minute mark.

The questions included a recent-incident prompt where I explained how I approached diagnosing something that wasn’t working: first understanding the situation, then turning a vague report into a real technical problem, and looking at logs

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