MathWorks·Software Engineer

MathWorks Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was pulled into a process that felt heavily math-based and tied to MathWorks tooling syntax.

The coding portion through a HackerRank-style assessment required knowledge of MATLAB syntax, and I honestly didn’t have that background. I also didn’t complete a video interview because of that gap; the process used HireVue.

Because my understanding of MATLAB wasn’t there, the assessment immediately put me at a disadvantage, and the rest of the steps felt like a technical screening I simply couldn’t overcome. I didn’t receive an offer, and the reflection I carried afterward was that I underestimated how foundational domain-specific syntax would be for their coding evaluation.

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