MDA Software Engineer interview experience (2026)

MDA Software Engineer interview experience

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United KingdomPosted Aug 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a short call that was supposed to set expectations, but it felt vague from the beginning—more like a quick check than a real senior-level conversation.

I talked through my experience and got one very basic Python question about list versus tuple, and while I answered clearly, there wasn’t much follow-up on what the role actually required or what they expected from someone coming in at that level.

The next day I was invited to an on-site interview at their Farnborough office. The meeting felt chaotic: the lead took phone calls multiple times and even spoke in another language while I was reviewing my answers, without stepping out. The technical assessment itself was essentially a sheet of fundamental programming questions—inheritance,

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