MDA Software Engineer interview experience

Then the session moved into Python: I was asked to analyze an existing piece of code, explain what it did, and then verify it by testing.

After walking through the code behavior, I actually ran the tests and talked through what I found. The tone felt fairly direct—less about coming up with something from scratch and more about showing I could understand a program end to end, from reading to execution.

When everything was done, the interviewer asked if I had any questions. I didn’t end up with an offer, but I felt like I understood what they were measuring the whole time: comprehension,