McAfee·Software Engineer

McAfee Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Jose, CAPosted Sep 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for Software Engineer at McAfee and the main friction came from logistics—an unstable call or a broken online test tool.

HR coordination + casual chat — I connected with HR (fairly casual) and then scheduled a Zoom phone screening.
Phone screening (Zoom) — The connection was poor the entire call, making the interview much harder than the questions themselves.
HR scheduling + online test (Otomeyt) — HR contacted me via LinkedIn and arranged an online assessment with two programming questions.
Online test failure — One submission didn’t register; the tool ended the test abruptly. I reported it and was told HR would check, but I never heard back. Outcome: I didn’t get an offer; the

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