McGraw Hill·Software Engineer

McGraw Hill Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

United StatesPosted Feb 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My journey began with a recruiter call where they screened with a set of technical, fairly “trivia-like” questions.

Next came a 1-hour technical interview with a lead or principal engineer, and after that there was a longer 2-hour panel with multiple leads plus the hiring manager.

The overall technical focus was around a Java async problem, where I walked through a solution using a different tool than one interviewer preferred. That’s when the tone shifted badly. One interviewer seemed determined to nitpick and even tried to undercut my approach instead of moving forward, and the frustration started to take over the flow of the panel. At one point another interviewer had to interrupt to steer the

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