Magic Leap·Software Engineer

Magic Leap Software Engineer interview experience

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Plantation, FLPosted Jan 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My journey started with a stretch of interviews that were a bit personality-and-background heavy, where the questions revolved around my accomplishments and history.

In the middle of that, I also encountered technical prompts that weren’t purely software-only—they were tied to design and how to think through properly structuring mechanical pieces.

Then the process turned into a sequence dominated by live coding. I had multiple 45-minute sessions focused on coding tests, and each test took up about half of the time. Overall, it felt like the interviews were heavily test-driven rather than centered on discussing the broader culture or day-to-day details.

Even when I could tell what they wanted me to do, the amount of live coding reviews weighed on me. I

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